Reviewed by: Gadamer's Hermeneutics: Between Phenomenology and Dialectic by Robert J. Dostal Carlo DaVia DOSTAL, Dialectic. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2022. ix + 297 pp. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $34.95 Reading this book is like getting a lively tour of the Portland Building (1120 Southwest 5th Ave., Portland, Oregon) from seasoned critic. The landmark municipal building, althou...

The sensorimotor theory of perception claims to be nonrepresentational. However, when dealing with some aspects of perception, such as epistemic properties, the theory retains conceptual aspects that are germane to representational accounts. In order to depart definitively from representationalism, it is suggested that the sensorimotor theory must treat perception as a behavioral process first ...

ion and reification, that shed light on the fundamental principles behind Quantifying Knowledge and Experience 7 perceptual knowledge. These issues are discussed in chapter 8. Models of conscious experience often go astray by defining experience in such vague or abstracted terms that the explanation is no clearer than the aspect of consciousness that it supposedly explains. I intend to ground m...

ion upon those sensible forms.1 This doctrine, in which the human mind becomes formally identical with the object of cognition, was accused of being unintelligible mystification by the ‘New Philosophy’ of the seventeenth century. Leibniz, for example, in the preface to his New Essays, writes scornfully of the Scholastics’ ‘ “intentional species” which travel from objects to us and find their wa...

“Mirrors,” she said, “are never to be trusted.” Neil Gaiman,Coraline The ability to recognize oneself in the mirror is often held as evidence of self-awareness. However, children under the age of 2 y and most animals do not behave as if their mirrored reflection represents their own face or body, calling their capacity for self-awareness into doubt. In PNAS, Chang et al. (1) build on prior work...

The divide between cognitivism and enactivism can be assessed by looking at their respective commitments to understanding perception as based on knowing-that, as opposed to knowinghow. While for the cognitivists perception can be framed as a propositional process [7] form of a radical anti-representationalist view [25]. This anti-representationalist stance has been inherited by the sensorimotor...

The ultimate goal of most image understanding systems is to produce an unambigu ous D representation of the local visual environment This representation can then be employed by robotic systems to e ect some meaningful action A great deal of research e ort is concerned with the development of visual and manipulative representations and their generative processes which allow for the e ective link...

Philosophy, artificial intelligence and cognitive science have long been dominated by the presupposition that intelligence is fundamentally individual. Recent work in cognitive science clearly undermines that notion. Increasingly, intelligence is seen not as having its locus in the individual, but in the network of relationships that the individual has with the external world and other individu...

Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness, by Joseph Levine, is reviewed. The position that Levine takes in the current philosophical debate about consciousness is identified and the general approach of the essay outlined. I focus on two of the more important issues in the book the conceivability argument against materialism, and the explanatory gap argument against dualism and argue that Levine...

This essay addresses three aspects of Barad's views about meaning and normativity: her 'post-humanist' insistence that the agential cuts that constitute phenomena need not incorporate human beings as observers, measurers, speakers, or concept-users; her alternative account of the objectivity of measurement, which also specifies the meaning of what she calls 'theoretical' concepts; and her claim...