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The Relational View of Perception: New Philosophical Essays book cover

1st Edition

The Relational View of Perception New Philosophical Essays

Edited By Farid Masrour, Ori Beck Copyright 2025
488 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

488 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

488 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Relationalism is the view in philosophy of mind that particulars in our environment are constituents of conscious perception. It is an important theory of perceptual experience, offering explanations of perception's phenomenal character and its epistemic and semantic role. However, it has also been criticised for a lack of empirical grounding. In this outstanding collection, an international... Read more

Introduction: The Logical Space of Relationalism Farid Masrour and Ori Beck

Part 1: Perception’s Phenomenal Character

1. Subjective Perspectives and Perceptual Variance Susanna Schellenberg

2. Spatial Perception: Advertisement for a Structuralist Fregean Relationalism Farid Masrour

3. Perception as a Relationship Alva Noë

4. The Partiality of Perception Matthew Soteriou

5. A Change of Perspective: Naïve Realism and Normal Variation Craig French and Ian Phillips

6. Whither Naïve Realism? – II Alex Byrne and E. J. Green

7. A Look at French and Phillips’ Naïve Realism Adam Pautz

Part 2: The (Dis)Unity of Perceptual Experience

8. The Anti-Relationalist’s Hard Problem Peter Epstein

9. Hallucination Without Sensible Qualities Dominic Alford-Duguid

10. The Disjunctive Property View of Phenomenal Character Roberta Locatelli

11. What Can the Naïve Realist Say about Total Hallucinations? Riding the New Relationalist Wave Heather Logue and Thomas Raleigh

12. What in the world are hallucinations? Rami Ali

Part 3: Relationalism’s Epistemological Benefits

13. Perceptually Secured Knowledge Elijah Chudnoff

14. A (Qualified) Defense of Diaphaneity Umrao Sethi

15. The Consciousness Knowledge Requires Ori Beck

16. Making Use of Perception Lisa Miracchi Titus.

Index

Biography

Farid Masrour is a Professor of Philosophy at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. His research interests range over philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, epistemology, and Kant’s theoretical philosophy.

Ori Beck is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He primarily works in the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of cognitive science.

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