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Pete Mandik

3 papers in the library · 41 citations · publishing 2007-2017

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The Myth of Color Sensations, or How Not to See a Yellow Banana.

Topics in Cognitive Science 2017 Pete Mandik 20 citations

I argue against a class of philosophical views of color perception, especially insofar as such views posit the existence of color sensations. I argue against the need to posit such nonconceptual mental intermediaries between the stimulus and the eventual conceptualized perceptual judgment. Central to my arguments are considerations of certain color illusions. Such illusions are best explained...

Control Consciousness

Topics in Cognitive Science March 8, 2010 Pete Mandik 13 citations

Control consciousness is the awareness or experience of seeming to be in control of one's actions. One view, which I will be arguing against in the present paper, is that control consciousness is a form of sensory consciousness. In such a view, control consciousness is exhausted by sensory elements such as tactile and proprioceptive information. An opposing view, which I will be arguing for, is...