Ambiguous figures and representationalism
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Ambiguous figures and representationalism
Macpherson (Nous 40(1):82–117, 2006) argues that the square/regular diamond figure threatens representationalism, construed as the theory which holds that the phenomenal character is explained by the nonconceptual content of experience. Her argument is the claim that representationalism is committed to the thesis that differences in the experience of ambiguous figures, the gestalt switch, shoul...
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عنوان ژورنال: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1568-7759,1572-8676
DOI: 10.1007/s11097-011-9207-1