Anti-Individualism and Perceptual Representation

Tyler Burge's anti-individualism – the view that individuating many of a creature's mental kinds is necessarily dependent on relations that the creature bears to the physical, or in some cases social, environment – backs his theory of perceptual representation, i.e. perceptual anti-individ...

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Main Authors: Tyler Burge, Carlos Muñoz-Suárez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2014-11-01
Series:Europe's Journal of Psychology
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Online Access:http://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/767
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Summary:Tyler Burge's anti-individualism – the view that individuating many of a creature's mental kinds is necessarily dependent on relations that the creature bears to the physical, or in some cases social, environment – backs his theory of perceptual representation, i.e. perceptual anti-individualism. Perceptual anti-individualism articulates a framework that, according to Burge, perceptual psychology assumed without articulation. In this interview, Burge talks about the main tenets and underpinnings of perceptual anti-individualism in relation to classic representational theories of perceptual experience, reductive theories of mental content, theories of phenomenal consciousness, and other associated topics.
ISSN:1841-0413