A theory of sentience / Austen Clark.
"Austen Clark offers a general account of the forms of mental representation that we call "sensory." Drawing on the findings of current neuroscience, Clark defends the hypothesis that the various modalities of sensation share a generic form that he calls "feature-placing." S...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "Austen Clark offers a general account of the forms of mental representation that we call "sensory." Drawing on the findings of current neuroscience, Clark defends the hypothesis that the various modalities of sensation share a generic form that he calls "feature-placing." Sensing proceeds by picking out place-times in or around the body of the sentient organism, and characterizing qualities (features) that appear at those place-times. The hypothesis casts light on many other troublesome phenomena, including the varieties of illusion, the problem of projection, the notion of a visual field, and the existence of sense-data."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 288 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-275) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0198238517 9780198238515 |