1st Edition

Thinking and Perceiving

By Dustin Stokes Copyright 2021
330 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

330 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

330 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Human beings are in contact with the world through their minds. One can make sensory perceptual contact with the world: One sees the tree and hears its leaves flutter. And one makes cognitive contact with the world: One forms beliefs about the tree, memories of how it was in the past, and expectations of how it will be in the future. Can the first, perception, be influenced in important ways by... Read more

Introduction

1. Thought and Perception: Distinctions, Similarities, and Relations

2. Mental Architecture: The Case for Modularity

3. Top-down Effects on Perception: The Initial Case for Malleability

4. Towards a Consequentialist Understanding of Cognitive Penetration

5. Attention and Cognitive Influence on Perception

6. Perceptual Expertise I: Mental Architecture

7. Perceptual Expertise II: Epistemology

8. Consequences of Perceptual Malleability

Conclusion

Epilogue: The Arguments From Understanding.

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Dustin Stokes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. He works primarily on the philosophy and science of perception, imagination and imagery, and creativity. With Stephen Biggs and Mohan Matthen, he is editor of Perception and Its Modalities (2014).