Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy of Perception, Paperback by Antich,...

by Peter Antich

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Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy of Perception, Paperback by Antich, Peter, ISBN 1032265906, ISBN-13 9781032265902, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book draws on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology to develop new and promising solutions to contemporary debates about perception. In providing an extension and defense of Merleau-Ponty's account of perceptual content and of the relation between perception and the world, it demonstrates the value of Merleau-Ponty's insights for philosophy of perception today. The author focuses on two main topics: the contents and the nature of perception. In the first half of this book, the author tackles debates about the content of perception, namely, what sorts of properties or features of the world reveal themselves to us in perception and in what modes. Drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s description of perceptual “sense,” the author argues that perception has a unique kind of content, which cannot be adequately described in terms of sensations or concepts. He then shows how this account of perceptual sense can clarify debates about the richness of perceptual content, including whether we can perceive moral properties. In the second half, he turns to the nature of perception. Here he argues that Merleau-Ponty’s account of perceptual intentionality makes available a powerful combination of the core insights of two main contemporary approaches to this question: realism and intentionalism. The author shows how this combination can be deve

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781032265902
• Condition: Fine

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