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What mediates between sensory input and motor output? What makes it possible to act on what you perceive? Bence Nanay argues that pragmatic representations provide the perceptual guidance for performing actions. They play a key role in our mental lives, and help explain why the majority of our mental processes are very similar to those of animals.
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07-November-2013
224 Pages
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What mediates between sensory input (seeing an apple, for instance) and motor output (reaching out for it)? What representations make it possible for you to act on what you sense before you? Bence Nanay calls these 'pragmatic representations', and argues that they play an immensely important role in our mental lives. 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. If we accept this framework, many classic questions in philosophy of perception and of action will look very different. Between Perception and Action traces 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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What mediates between sensory input (seeing an apple, for instance) and motor output (reaching out for it)? What representations make it possible for you to act on what you sense before you? Bence Nanay calls these 'pragmatic representations', and argues that they play an immensely important role in our mental lives. 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. If we accept this framework, many classic questions in philosophy of perception and of action will look very different. Between Perception and Action traces 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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