Between perception and action
by Nanay, Bence
What mediates between sensory input and motor output? What makes it possible to act on what you perceive? Bence Nanay argues that pragmatic representations provide the perceptual guidance for performing actions. They play a key role in our mental lives and help explain why the majority of our mental processes are very similar to those of animals.
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What mediates between sensory input and motor output? What makes it possible to act on what you perceive? Bence Nanay argues that pragmatic representations provide the perceptual guidance for performing actions. They play a key role in our mental lives and help explain why the majority of our mental processes are very similar to those of animals.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
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- Description:1 online resource (x, 209 pages .)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780191502156, 0191502154, 9780191760747, 0191760749
- oclc:ocn867641292
- LC Classification:BD418.3
- Dewey Decimal:128.2
Table of Contents
Cover -- Between Perception and Action -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1: Introduction -- 1.1 The icing and the cake -- 1.2 Pragmatic representations -- 1.3 Product differentiation -- 2: Pragmatic Representations -- 2.1 Mediating between sensory input and motor output -- 2.2 The immediate mental antecedents of actions -- 2.3 The direction of fit -- 2.4 Pragmatic representations are perceptual states -- 2.5 The argument -- 2.6 Potential counterexamples -- 2.7 Pragmatic representations everywhere -- 3: Perception
3.1 Are there perceptual representations at all?3.2 Perceptually attributed properties -- 3.2.1 Action-properties -- 3.2.2 Thick action-properties -- 3.2.3 Action-properties are not normative -- 3.3 Sensory individuals -- 3.3.1 The sensory individuals of vision -- 3.3.2 The sensory individuals of audition -- 3.3.3 Methodological considerations -- 3.3.4 The sensory individuals of pragmatic representations -- 3.3.5 Sensory individuals in other sense modalities -- 3.4 Pragmatic representations and the dorsal visual subsystem -- 4: Action
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