Research Catalog

Title

Between perception and action / Bence Nanay.

Author

Nanay, Bence

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Description

1 volume; 22 cm.

Summary

What mediates between sensory input and motor output? This is probably the most basic question one can ask about the mind. There is stimulation on your retina, something happens in your skull, and then your hand reaches out to grab the apple in front of you. What is it that happens in between? What representations make it possible for you to grab this apple? Bence Nanay calls these representations that make it possible for you to grab the apple 'pragmatic representations'. In Between Perception and Action he argues that pragmatic representations whose function is to mediate between sensory input and motor output play an immensely important role in our mental life. And they help us to explain why the vast majority of what goes on in our mind is very similar to the simple mental processes of animals. If we accept this framework, many classic questions in philosophy of perception and of action will look very different. The aim of this book is to trace the various consequences of this way of thinking about the mind in a number of branches of philosophy as well as in psychology and cognitive science. -- Book jacket.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Philosophy of mind
• Mind and body
• Act (Philosophy)
• Perception
• Sensorimotor Cortex > physiology
• Psychomotor Performance > physiology

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-200) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pragmatic representations -- Perception -- Action -- Pragmatic mental imagery.

ISBN

• 9780199695379
• 0199695377

OCLC

866836551

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library