Concept information
Preferred term
philosophical approaches
Definition
- Philosophers think of perception as a sensory experience (also called a sensation) that provides the perceiver with knowledge concerning the external world. This leads into an approach to perception that diverges importantly from those taken in science and in everyday thinking.Three clarifications:1. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Philosophical Approaches]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- color: philosophical issues
- computer consciousness
- consciousness
- content of perceptual experience
- indirect nature of perception
- intentionality and perception
- inverted spectrum
- mary the color scientist
- mind and body
- modality (philosophy)
- Molyneux's question
- naïve realism
- perceptual representation
- phenomenology (philosophy)
- philosophy: access and report
- philosophy: attention and the size of the conscious field
- private nature of perceptual experience
- qualia
- seeing as (perception)
- visual filling in and completion
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/philosophical_approaches
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