Between Perception and Action - Softcover

Nanay, Bence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198803664 ISBN 13: 9780198803669

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2017

Synopsis

What mediates between sensory input and motor output? What makes it possible to act on what you perceive? Bence Nanay argues that pragmatic representations provide the perceptual guidance for performing actions. They play a key role in our mental lives, and help explain why the majority of our mental processes are very similar to those of animals.

About this title

About the Author:

Bence Nanay is Professor of Philosophy and BOF Research Professor at the University of Antwerp and Senior Research Associate at Peterhouse, Cambridge University. He received his PhD at University of California, Berkeley in 2006. He is the editor of Perceiving the World (OUP, 2010) and Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception (OUP). He published more than seventy articles on philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology, and aesthetics.

Review:

"The book is an important contribution to philosophical research on the relationship between perception, agency and cognition, and deserves the attention of any theorist working on these issues." -- Analysis

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0198803664
• ISBN 13: 9780198803669
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224