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Overview
Austen Clark offers a general account of the forms of mental representation that we call "sensory." Drawing on the findings of current neuroscience, Clark defends the hypothesis that the various modalities of sensation share a generic form that he calls "feature-placing." Sensing proceeds by picking out place-times in or around the body of the sentient organism, and characterizing qualities (features) that appear at those place-times. The hypothesis casts light on many other troublesome phenomena, including the varieties of illusion, the problem of projection, the notion of a visual field, and the existence of sense-data.
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- ISBN-13: 9780198238515
- ISBN-10: 0198238517
- Publisher: Clarendon Press
- Publish Date: May 2000
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.31 pounds
- Page Count: 304
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