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Published 2017-11-01
Keywords
- No conceptualismo,
- Contenido protoproposicional,
- Percepción,
- Conceptualismo
- Nonconceptualism,
- Protopropositional Content,
- Perception,
- Conceptualism
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Abstract
In his characterization of nonconceptual content, Christopher Peacocke makes a constant effort to differentiate the protopropositional nonconceptual content he proposes from the conceptual content. In this paper I’ll analyze such efforts, concluding that they are unsuccessful. In order to do this, I’ll reconstruct Peacocke’s nonconceptual position and point out the great similarity between certain contents and processes considered to be paradigmatically conceptual, and the examples of supposedly non-conceptual protopropositional contents and processes offered by the author.
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Brewer, B. (2001), “Précis of Perception and Reason”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 63 (2) pp. 405-416.
Brewer, B. (2005), “Perceptual Experience Has Conceptual Content”, en Sosa, E. y Steup, M. (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 217-230.
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Chalmers, D. J. (2004), “The Representational Character of Experience”, en Leiter, B. (ed.), The Future for Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 153-181.
Cohen, H. y Lefebvre, C. (eds.) (2005), Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science, Oxford, Elsevier.
Crane, T. (1988), “The Waterfall Illusion”, en Gunther, Y. H. (ed.) (2003), Essays on Nonconceptual Content, Cambridge, The MIT Press, pp. 231-236.
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Dretske, F. (1981), Knowledge and the Flow of Information, Cambridge, The MIT Press.
Evans, G. (1982), The Varieties of Reference, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
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Kelly, S. (2001b), “Demonstrative Concepts and Experience”, The Philosophical Review, 110 (3), pp. 397-420.
Leslie, A. (1987), “Pretense and Representation: The Origins of ‘Theory of Mind’”, Psychological Review, 94 (3), pp. 412-426.
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Machery, E. (2009), Doing without concepts, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
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McDowell, J. (1994), Mind and World, Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
McDowell, J. (1996), “Afterword”, en Mind and World, Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
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McDowell, J. (2009), Having the World in View: Essays on Kant, Hegel, and Sellars, Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
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Peacocke, C. (1986), “Perceptual Content”, en Themes from Kaplan, New York, Oxford University Press, pp. 297-329.
Peacocke, C. (1992), “Scenarios, Concepts, and Perception”, en Gunther, Y. H. (ed.) (2003), Essays on Nonconceptual Content, Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press, pp. 107-132.
Peacocke, C., (1994), “Nonconceptual Content: Kinds, Rationales, and Relations”, en Gunther, Y. H. (ed.) (2003), Essays on Nonconceptual Content, Cambridge, The MIT Press, pp. 309-322.
Peacocke, C. (1998), “Nonconceptual Content Defended (Comment on McDowell’s ‘Mind and World’)”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 58 (2), pp. 381-88.
Peacocke, C. (2001), “Does Perception Have a Nonconceptual Content?”, The Journal of Philosophy, 98 (5), pp. 239-264.
Piccinini, G. y Scott, S. (2006), “Splitting Concepts”, Philosophy of Science, 73 (4), pp. 390-409.
Prinz, J. (2002), Furnishing the Mind: Concepts and their Perceptual Basis, Cambridge, The MIT Press.
Prinz, J. (2005), “The Return of Concept Empiricism”, en Cohen, H. y Lefebvre, C. (eds.), Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science, Oxford, Elsevier, pp. 679-695.
Rosch, E. (1978), “Principles of categorization”, en Rosch, E. y Lloyd, B. (eds.), Cognition and Categorization, Hillsdale, Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 27-48.
Russell, B. (1903), The Principles of Mathematics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Scholl, B. J. y Leslie, A. (1999), “Modularity, Development and ‘Theory of Mind’”, Mind & Language, 14 (1), pp. 131-153.
Smith, A. D. (2002), The Problem of Perception, Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
Spelke, E. (1990), “Principles of Object Perception”, Cognitive Science, 14 (1), pp. 29-56.
Spelke, E. (1992) “Origins of Knowledge”, Psychological Review, 99 (4), pp. 605-632.
Vigo, R. y Allen, C. (2009), “How to Reason without Words: Inference as Categorization”, Cognitive Processing, 10 (1), pp. 77-88.