David J. Chalmers
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195311105
- eISBN:
- 9780199870851
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311105.003.0012
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
This chapter takes up the issue of the contents of experience where Chapter 11 leaves off. It argues that the account of Fregean content in Chapter 11 has some important inadequacies concerning its ...
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This chapter takes up the issue of the contents of experience where Chapter 11 leaves off. It argues that the account of Fregean content in Chapter 11 has some important inadequacies concerning its relation to phenomenology and leaves some crucial issues unexplained. It develops a further account involving so-called Edenic content: content that represents primitive properties (such as primitive redness or greenness), properties that are not instantiated in our world but that one can imagine might have been instantiated in the Garden of Eden. The chapter brings this account to bear on many questions in the philosophy of perception, including questions about color constancy, spatial content, the representation of objects, and more.Less
This chapter takes up the issue of the contents of experience where Chapter 11 leaves off. It argues that the account of Fregean content in Chapter 11 has some important inadequacies concerning its relation to phenomenology and leaves some crucial issues unexplained. It develops a further account involving so-called Edenic content: content that represents primitive properties (such as primitive redness or greenness), properties that are not instantiated in our world but that one can imagine might have been instantiated in the Garden of Eden. The chapter brings this account to bear on many questions in the philosophy of perception, including questions about color constancy, spatial content, the representation of objects, and more.
