Cavedon-Taylor, Dan (2011) Perceptual content and senorimotor expectations. The Philosophical Quarterly 61 (243), pp. 383-391. ISSN 0031-8094.
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I distinguish between two kinds of sensorimotor expectations: agent- and object-active ones. Alva Noe's answer to the problem of how perception acquires volumetric content illicitly privileges agent-active expectations over object-active expectations, though the two are explanatorily on a par. Considerations which Noe draws upon concerning how organisms may 'off-load' internal processes onto the environment do not support his view that volumetric content depends on our embodiment; rather, they support a view of experience which is restrictive of the body's role in perception. My objections undercut central arguments which Noe gives for his brand of enactivism.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| School or Research Centre: | Birkbeck Schools and Research Centres > School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy > Philosophy |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2011 10:16 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2013 12:20 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/3590 |
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