The Contents of Perceptual Experience: A Kantian Perspective
by Anna Tomaszewska
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Ltd 2014
ISBN/ASIN: 3110372649
Number of pages: 157
Description:
The book addresses the debate on whether the representational content of perceptual experience is conceptual or non-conceptual, by bringing out the points of comparison between Kant s conception of intuition and contemporary accounts of non-conceptual content. It is argued that intuition provides the most basic form of intentionality pre-conceptual reference to objects, which underlies the acts of conceptualization and judgment.
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