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Action in perception

Author: Alva Noë
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Series: Representation and mind.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"In Action in Perception, Noe argues that perception and perceptual consciousness depend on capacities for action and thought - that perception is a kind of thoughtful activity. Touch, not vision, should be our model for perception. Perception is not a process in the brain, but a kind of skillful activity of the body as a whole. We enact our perceptual experience. To perceive, according to this enactive approach to  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alva Noë
ISBN: 0262140888 9780262140881 0262640635 9780262640633
OCLC Number: 56195103
Description: viii, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The enactive approach to perception: an introduction --
Pictures in mind --
enacting content --
colors enacted --
Perspective in content --
Thought in experience --
Brain in mind: a conclusion.
Series Title: Representation and mind.
Responsibility: Alva Noë.

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An argument that perception is something we do, not something that happens to us: not a process in the brain, but a skillful bodily activity.  Read more...

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