A Theory of Sentience
ISBN13: 9780198238515ISBN10: 0198238517
Hardback,
304 pages
Apr 2000,
In Stock
Price:
$144.00 (08)Description
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.About the Author(s)
Austen Clark is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
