What mediates between sensory input and motor output? This is probably
the most basic question one can ask about the mind. There is
stimulation on your retina, something happens in your skull and then
you hand reaches out to grab the apple in front of you. What is it
that happens in between? What representations make it possible for you
to grab this apple? Bence Nanay calls these representations that make
it possible for you to grab the apple 'pragmatic representations'. In
Between Perception and Action he argues that pragmatic representations
whose function is to mediate between sensory input and motor output
play an immensely important role in our mental life. And they help us
to explain why the vast majority of what goes on in our mind is very
similar to the simple mental processes of animals. The human mind,
like the mind of non-human animals, has been selected for allowing us
to perform actions successfully. And the vast majority of our actions,
like the actions of non-human animals, could not be performed without
perceptual guidance. And what provides the perceptual guidance for
performing actions are pragmatic representations. If we accept this
framework, many classic questions in philosophy of perception and of
action will look very different. The aim of this book is to trace the
various consequences of this way of thinking about the mind in a
number of branches of philosophy as well as in psychology and
cognitive science.
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ISBN
9780191022593
Publisert
2020
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Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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