Augustine on Active Perception, Awareness, and Representation
Abstract It is widely thought that Augustine thinks perception is, in some distinctive sense, an active process and that he takes conscious awareness to be constitutive of perception. I argue that conscious awareness is not straightforwardly constitutive of perception and that Augustine is best unde...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2021
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Phronesis
Jahr: 2021, Band: 66, Heft: 1, Seiten: 84-110 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Augustine
B Mental representation B Consciousness B Memory B Perceptual Experience |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Abstract It is widely thought that Augustine thinks perception is, in some distinctive sense, an active process and that he takes conscious awareness to be constitutive of perception. I argue that conscious awareness is not straightforwardly constitutive of perception and that Augustine is best understood as an indirect realist. I then clarify Augustine’s views concerning the nature and role of diachronically unified conscious awareness and mental representation in perception, the nature of the soul’s intentio , and the precise sense(s) in which perception is an active process. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5284 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Phronesis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685284-BJA10035 |