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Author:   John Zeimbekis (, University of Patras, Greece) ,  Athanassios Raftopoulos (, University of Cyprus)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.90cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.832kg
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9780198738916

ISBN 10:   0198738919
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   02 July 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Athanassios Raftopoulos and John Zeimbekis: The Cognitive Penetrability of Perception: An Overview I. DEFINITIONAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES 1: Edouard Machery: Cognitive Penetrability: A No-Progress Report 2: Dustin Stokes: Towards a Consequentialist Understanding of Cognitive Penetration II. MODULARITY, ENCAPSULATION AND IMPENETRABILITY 3: Jack C. Lyons: Unencapsulated Modules and Perceptual Judgment 4: Daniel Burnston and Jonathan Cohen: Perceptual Integration, Modularity, and Cognitive Penetration 5: Ophelia Deroy: Multisensory Perception and Cognitive Penetration: The Unity Assumption, Thirty Years After III. SUBSTANTIVE IMPENETRABILITY AND PENETRABILITY CLAIMS 6: Fred Dretske: Perception versus Conception: The Goldilocks Test 7: Robert Briscoe: Cognitive Penetration and the Reach of Phenomenal Content 8: Brad Mahon and Wayne Wu: Cognitive Penetration of the Dorsal Visual Stream? 9: Christopher Mole: Attention and Cognitive Penetration IV. COGNITIVE PENETRABILITY AND THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF PERCEPTION 10: Jérôme Dokic and Jean-Rémy Martin: Looks the same but feels different: A metacognitive approach to cognitive penetrability 11: Athanassios Raftopoulos: Cognitive Penetrability and Consciousness 12: John Zeimbekis: Seeing, Visualizing, and Believing: Pictures and Cognitive Penetration V. COGNITIVE PENETRABILITY AND NONCONCEPTUAL CONTENT 13: Fiona Macpherson: Cognitive Penetration and Nonconceptual Content VI. COGNITIVE PENETRABILITY AND REALISM 14: Jonathan Lowe: Perceptual Content, Cognitive Penetrability, and Realism 15: Costas Pagondiotis: Cognitive (Im)penetrability of Vision: Restricting Vision versus Restricting Cognition Susanna Siegel: Afterword: Epistemic Evaluability and Perceptual Farce Index

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... what this volume displays in spades, is that careful and creative work, both empirical and conceptual, continues to shine further light on and raise fruitful new questions regarding these fascinating topics. Steven Gross, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online

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John Zeimbekis is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Patras. He works on the philosophy of perception, especially demonstrative thought, the metaphysics of qualities, and the relations between thought, perception, imagery, memory, and pictures. He has published papers on perception in Noûs and Philosophical Studies. He also works on topics in aesthetics and is the author of a book on aesthetic value, Qu'est-ce qu'un Jugement Esthétique (Paris, Vrin, 2006). Athanassios Raftopoulos is Professor of Epistemology and Cognitive Science in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cyprus. He is the author of Cognition and Perception: How Do Psychology and Neural Sciences Inform Philosophy (MIT, 2009), and co-author with Philippos Kargopoulos of The Science of Logic and the Art of Thinking (Equinox, 1999). He is editor of Cognitive Penetrability of Perception: Attention, Action, Planning, and Bottom-up Constraints (Nova Science, 2005), co-editor of Perception, Realism, and the Problem of Reference (CUP, 2012), and of Cognitive Developmental Change: Theories, Models and Measurement (CUP, 2004). Raftopoulos has published over one hundred papers on the philosophy of science, cognitive science, perception, epistemology, and philosophy of mind.

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