On the Epistemic Significance of Perceptual Structure

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-02-20 DOI:10.1093/pq/pqad015

Dominic Alford-Duguid

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Abstract

Our awareness of the boundedness of the spatial sensory field—a paradigmatic structural feature of visual experience—possesses a distinctive epistemic role. Properly understood, this result undermines a widely assumed picture of how visual experience permits us to learn about the world. This paper defends an alternative picture in which visual experience provides at least two kinds of non-inferential justification for beliefs about the external world. Accommodating this justification in turn requires recognising a new way for visual experience to encode information about the world. Reflection upon the epistemic contribution of sensory experience's structural features thus forces us to revise our understanding of how perception, cognition, and the world fit together.

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论知觉结构的认识意义

我们对空间感觉场的有限性的认识——视觉经验的典型结构特征——具有独特的认知作用。如果理解得当，这一结果就会削弱人们普遍认为的视觉体验如何让我们了解世界的观点。本文为另一种观点辩护，在这种观点中，视觉经验为关于外部世界的信念提供了至少两种非推理证明。为了适应这种理由，我们需要认识到一种视觉经验编码世界信息的新方式。因此，对感官经验结构特征的认识论贡献的反思迫使我们修改我们对感知、认知和世界如何结合在一起的理解。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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