1st Edition
Perception, Cognition and Aesthetics
Introduction
Dena Shottenkirk, Steven S. Gouveia and Manuel Curado
Section I: Perception
Chapter 1: Disjunctivism and the Internal. A Problem for McDowell’s Epistemological Disjunctivism?
Davide Dalla Rosa and Federico Sanguinetti
Chapter 2: Xenophanes’ Figs and Honey: An Essay about a Program of Philosophy of Perception
Manuel Curado
Chapter 3: A Neurophilosophical Approach to Perception
Steven S. Gouveia and Georg Northoff
Chapter 4: Smelling Molecular Structure
Benjamin D. Young
Chapter 5: "Hierarchical Bokeh" Theory of Attention
Anatoly Nichvoloda
Chapter 6: Perceiving Live Improvisation in the Performing Arts
Aili Bresnahan
Section II: Cognition
Chapter 7: Consciousness and Content in Perception
Bill Brewer
Chapter 8: Perceptual Capacities
Susanna Schellenberg
Chapter 9: Thinking Differently About Thought
Nicholas Georgalis
Chapter 10: Immediate and reflective senses
Angela Mendelovici
Chapter 11: The Unity of Unconsciousness
Tim Crane
Chapter 12: Phenomenal Experience and the Thesis of Revelation
Michelle Liu
Section III: Perception and Cognition in Aesthetics
Chapter 13: Would You Buy Absence Art?
Anya Farennikova
Chapter 14: Penetrating Beauty: Knowledge, Culture and Context in Aesthetic Perception
Jesse Prinz
Chapter 15: Gist Experience
Dena Shottenkirk
Chapter 16: How Do I Know When I Am Dancing?
Romain Bigé
Chapter 17a: Interview of James Cohan
Dena Shottenkirk
Chapter 17b: Interview of Leonel Moura
Steven S. Gouveia
Biography
Dena Shottenkirk is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Brooklyn College. Before receiving her PhD from the Graduate Center (CUNY), Shottenkirk had received an MFA in painting from Rutgers University and was employed as an art critic at both Artforum and Art in America magazines.
Manuel Curado is a Professor at the University of Minho (Portugal). He’s mainly interested in intellectual history, namely the history of the Jewish and Portuguese medicine, and the history of the representations of mental life, namely the Philosophy of Mind debate and the history of Psychiatry until the 19th century.
Steven S. Gouveia is a Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Minho under the supervision of Professor Manuel Curado (University of Minho) and Professor Georg Northoff (University of Ottawa), funded by the Science and Tecnhology Portuguese Foundation. More info: https://stevensgouveia.weebly.com/
