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Possibilities of perception / Jennifer Church

Author
Church, Jennifer, 1954-
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Perception and the Experience of Objectivity -- 1.Perceiving and Knowing -- 2.Immediacy and its Problems -- 3.Self-evidence and the Experience of Objectivity -- 4.A Sensory Requirement? -- ch. 2 The Role of the Imagination -- 1.The Need for Active Imagining -- 2.The Evidence for Imagining -- 3.Imagining and Imagery -- 4.The Validation of Imagination -- 5.Conclusion -- ch. 3 Perceiving Reasons -- 1.Reasons and Explanatory Relations -- 2.Perceiving Causes -- 3.Perceiving Constituents as Reasons -- 4.Perceiving Justificatory Reasons -- 5.The "Space of Reasons" -- 6.The Advantages of Perceiving Reasons -- 7.Conclusion -- ch. 4 The Further Reaches of Perception -- 1.Perceiving Remote States of Affairs -- 2.Perceiving Future States of Affairs -- 3.Perceiving Abstract States of Affairs -- 4.Rational Perception---Lessons from Plato and Descartes -- 5.Conclusion -- ch. 5 Moral Perception -- 1.Standard Commitments of Perceptual Theories -- 2.Perceiving Persons as Persons -- 3.Uncanniness and Ambivalence -- 4.Perceiving What to Do -- 5.Back to Kant -- 6.Conclusion -- ch. 6 Aesthetic Perception -- 1.The Objects of Aesthetic Perception -- 2.The Process of Aesthetic Perception -- 3.The Double Consciousness of Aesthetic Perception -- 4.Aestheticizing Morality and Moralizing Aesthetics.
Summary
Jennifer Church presents a new account of perception, which shows how imagining alternative perspectives and possibilities plays a key role in creating and validating experiences of self-evident objectivity. She explores the nature of moral perception and aesthetic perception, and argues that perception can be both literal and substantive.
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ISBN
9780191757945 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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