A man perceives a lemon from afar and up close. (Image courtesy of MIT OpenCourseWare.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Susanna Siegel
Prof. Alex Byrne
MIT Course Number
24.500
As Taught In
Spring 2007
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course is a survey of recent philosophy of perception. The main topics discussed are the following: the transparency of perceptual experience, disjunctivism, the content of perceptual experience, perceptual consciousness, thought ownership and thought disorders (focussing on schizophrenia), introspection, and the perception of sound. Questions raised by these topics include "In what way is imagination distinct from perception?", "Is there a perceptual relation?", "What is the view that perceptual experiences have representational content?", "In what way is introspection distinct from perception?", "What does the phenomenon of 'thought insertion' show about the ownership of thoughts?", and "What is a sound?". We explore these topics through reading, writing, and presentations by the instructors and guests.
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