Color, Competence, and Correctness- [electronic resource]
Color, Competence, and Correctness- [electronic resource]
- 자료유형
- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214100122
- ISBN
- 9798379758790
- DDC
- 100
- 서명/저자
- Color, Competence, and Correctness - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : University of Pennsylvania., 2023
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2023
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(239 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Hatfield, Gary.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2023.
- 사용제한주기
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- 초록/해제
- 요약The mainstream view in contemporary analytic philosophy is that perception is primarily in the business of representing the mind-independent world as it is. This work explores an alternative conception: that the goal of perception is to guide successful action and that perceptions do not need to track mind-independent properties to play this action-guiding role. I focus on two types of perception: color perception and pain perception. I start with the former and advocate a pragmatist, empirically-guided approach which begins by inquiring into the function of color vision. After arguing that none of the extant philosophical views of color are satisfactory, I answer the function question by focusing on systematic color perceptual phenomena investigated by psychophysicists. I argue that the human color visual system is an enhancement system: that is, its job is to help us better discriminate, track, and recognize meaningful objects, properties, and relations. I then build on this idea using the notion of 'competence-embeddedness.' I propose that color vision is embedded in a network of competences: the aim of color vision is to help organisms manifest these competences, and color experiences are correct when they result from competence-enhancing processing. The framework is explanatorily robust. For example, it allows me to conceptualize many textbook color illusions as special cases of successful color perception where the demands of the relevant competences clash. Finally, I use the notion of 'competence-embeddedness' to develop a new account of pain. I argue that the pain system is not a bodily disturbance detector, but a sophisticated, context-responsive security system whose primary goal is to help organisms manifest important behavioral and cognitive competences.
- 일반주제명
- Philosophy.
- 일반주제명
- Neurosciences.
- 일반주제명
- Cognitive psychology.
- 키워드
- Color
- 키워드
- Competence
- 키워드
- Function
- 키워드
- Pain
- 키워드
- Perception
- 기타저자
- University of Pennsylvania Philosophy
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 84-12B.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
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