Perceptual content and sensorimotor expectations

Cavedon-Taylor, Dan (2011) Perceptual content and sensorimotor expectations. The Philosophical Quarterly 61 (243), pp. 383-391. ISSN 0031-8094.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2010.691.x

Abstract

I distinguish between two kinds of sensorimotor expectations: agent‐ and object‐active ones. Alva Noë'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 Noë 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 Noë gives for his brand of enactivism.

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Item Type:	Article
School:	Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies
Depositing User:	Administrator
Date Deposited:	02 Dec 2014 13:57
Last Modified:	02 Aug 2023 17:14
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/11198

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