The Perception–Cognition Border

Green, E. J.

doi:10.1002/9781394259847.ch26

Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind 2023

DOI: 10.1002/9781394259847.ch26

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The Perception–Cognition Border

E. J. Green

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Practical perceptual representations: a contemporary defense of an old idea

Springle,

Buccella

2024

Synthese

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According to ‘orthodox’ representationalism, perceptual states possess constitutive veridicality (truth, accuracy, or satisfaction) conditions. Typically, philosophers who deny orthodox representationalism endorse some variety of anti-representationalism. But we argue that these haven’t always been, and needn’t continue to be, the only options. Philosophers including Descartes, Malebranche and Helmholtz appear to have rejected orthodox representationalism while nonetheless endorsing perceptual representations of a fundamentally practical kind not captured by orthodox representationalism. Moreover, we argue that the perceptual science called on by contemporary philosophers to defend orthodox representationalism instead motivates a return to this older view, and we suggest that contemporary philosophers may conceptualize fundamentally practical perceptual representations as ‘de agendo’ representations, a species of representation that has constitutive appropriateness rather than veridicality conditions.

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Practical perceptual representations: a contemporary defense of an old idea

Springle,

Buccella

2024

Synthese

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The language-of-thought hypothesis as a working hypothesis in cognitive science

Quilty-Dunn,

Porot,

Mandelbaum

2023

Behav Brain Sci

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The target article attempted to draw connections between broad swaths of evidence by noticing a common thread: Abstract, symbolic, compositional codes, that is, language-of-thoughts (LoTs). Commentators raised concerns about the evidence and offered fascinating extensions to areas we overlooked. Here we respond and highlight the many specific empirical questions to be answered in the next decade and beyond.

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Perceptual categorization and perceptual concepts

Green

2024

The Philosophical Quarterly

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Conceptualism is the view that at least some perceptual representation is conceptual. This paper considers a prominent recent argument against Conceptualism due to Ned Block. Block's argument appeals to patterns of color representation in infants, alleging that infants exhibit categorical perception of color while failing to deploy concepts of color categories. Accordingly, the perceptual representation of color categories in infancy must be non-conceptual. This argument is distinctive insofar as it threatens not only the view that all perception is conceptual, but also views that restrict the Conceptualist thesis to perceptual categorization. However, I contend that it fails at two stages. Block's arguments for the perceptual representation of color categories in infancy, and against color concept deployment in infancy, are unpersuasive. Thus, Block has not vanquished Conceptualism. I draw out implications for debates about the perception–cognition border and for the question of whether explicit categorization occurs in perception.

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The Perception–Cognition Border

Cited by 6 publications

References 107 publications

Practical perceptual representations: a contemporary defense of an old idea

Practical perceptual representations: a contemporary defense of an old idea

The language-of-thought hypothesis as a working hypothesis in cognitive science

Perceptual categorization and perceptual concepts

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