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Ali M. Hasan
PHIL 301
Seattle Campus
Philosophical topics at the intermediate level. Content varies each quarter, depending on instructor.
Class description
An introduction to the main problems and puzzles regarding the nature of visual perception and perceptual knowledge in the philosophical and psychological literature, and to some of the main approaches and proposed solutions to these problems. We will examine perception and perceptual knowledge from different (not necessarily incompatible) “perspectives”, including: the uncritical or “naïve” commonsense perspective; introspection and phenomenological investigation of perceptual experience; conceptual analysis and philosophical reflection; “folk” or “armchair” psychology; experimental psychology, cognitive science, and visual neuroscience. The serious student can expect to acquire a deeper understanding of the aims and approaches of philosophical and psychological investigations into perception and perceptual knowledge, and an appreciation of some important similarities and differences, connections and tensions, between these aims, approaches, and proposed solutions. TEXT: The Thinking Eye, The Seeing Brain: Explorations in Visual Cognition, Enns
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