
Perception
Essays After Frege
Charles Travis(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 13. June 2013
Book
Hardback
428 pages
978-0-19-967654-5 (ISBN)
Description
Charles Travis presents a series of connected essays on current topics in philosophy of perception. The book is informed throughout by a number of central insights of Gottlob Frege's, notably about some intrinsic differences between objects of thought and objects of perception, and about the essential publicity of thought, and hence of its objects. Travis addresses a number of key questions, including how perception can make the world bear for the perceiver on the thing for him to do or think; what it might be for there to be perceptual experiences indistinguishable from ones of perceiving (hence from experiences of one's surroundings); what it might be for things to look a certain way to the experiencer, where this is not for things to look that way; what the upshot of (sub-personal) perceptual processing might be, what sorts of capacities are drawn on in representing something as (being) something. Besides Frege, the essays owe much to J. L. Austin, something to J. M. Hinton, and more than a little to John McDowell and to Thompson Clarke. They engage critically with McDowell and with Clarke, as well as with such philosophers as Christopher Peacocke, Tyler Burge, Jerry Fodor, Elisabeth Anscombe, A. J. Ayer, and H. A. Prichard.
Reviews / Votes
the reader who ventures to follow Travis along the lines of argument contained in these essays will be rewarded with rich reflections on some of the most central topics in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. * James Genone, Mind * a stimulating and original contribution to many debates in contemporary philosophy of perception. Travis's rehabilitation of Fregean anti-psychologism is a welcome and timely development . . . this collection presents a coherent and impressive case against the prevailing representationalist consensus, and is perhaps best read as setting the agenda for an alternative, non-representational understanding of perceptual psychology and the metaphysics of mind and consciousness. As such, philosophers of mind, language and perception will find much of interest here, both in terms of building upon Travis's previous work, and in opening up new lines of enquiry in the debates about perceptual content, representation and disjunctivism. * Keith A. Wilson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Scholars and advanced students in epistemology and philosophy of mind.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
804 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-967654-5 (9780199676545)
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Person
Charles Travis is Professor of Philosophy at King's College London, and a researcher in the University of Porto's Institute of Philosophy, and, more specifically, the Mind, Language and Action Group. He received his doctorate from UCLA, and has taught at a number of universities in the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Scotland, and England. Besides perception he has written on philosophy of language, Wittgenstein, objectivity and the idea of forms of thought, and issues in philosophy of psychology, notably concerning propositional attitudes.
Content
Introduction ; 1. The Silence of the Senses ; 2. Frege, Father of Disjunctivism ; 3. Viewing the Inner ; 4. Reason's Reach ; 5. The Inward Turn ; 6. Affording us the World ; 7. Is Seeing Intentional? ; 8. Unlocking the Outer World ; 9. Desperately Seeking Psi ; 10. The Preserve of Thinkers ; Appendix ; 11. That Object of Obscure Desire ; 12. While under the Influence ; Bibliography ; Index