Journal article
Perceptual Modes of Presentation as Object Files
Erkenntnis, Vol.89(6), pp.2377-2395
08/2024
DOI: 10.1007/s10670-022-00633-8
Abstract
Some have defended a Fregean view of perceptual content. On this view, the constituents of perceptual contents are Fregean
modes of presentation
(MOPs). In this paper, I propose that perceptual MOPs are best understood in terms of
object files
. Object files are episodic representations that store perceptual information about objects. This information is updated when sensory conditions change. On the proposed view, when a subject perceptually represents some object
a
under two distinct MOPs, then the subject initiates two object files that both refer to
a
. My defense of this view appeals to its satisfaction of four constraints that I argue theories of perceptual MOPs should satisfy. Furthermore, I show that some existent accounts of perceptual MOPs fail to satisfy them. The defended constraints also indicate what is unique about perceptual, as opposed to linguistic or cognitive, MOPs.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Perceptual Modes of Presentation as Object Files
- Creators
- Gabriel Siegel - Washington University in St. Louis
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Erkenntnis, Vol.89(6), pp.2377-2395
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10670-022-00633-8
- ISSN
- 0165-0106
- eISSN
- 1572-8420
- Number of pages
- 19
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/2024
- Academic Unit
- Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9984826361202771
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