4 papers in the library · publishing 2025
The Anatomy of Experience December 12, 2025 Jody Azzouni
Abstract Careful introspection reveals that both categorical perception and pure noncategorical thisness are relatively “empty.” Categorical perception is the experience of generality, that something is an instance. But being an instance comes to very little because our experience of the scope of categories, the range of things that can be categorized as dog or as pink, for example, is so...
The Anatomy of Experience December 12, 2025 Jody Azzouni
Abstract With a close lexical analysis of the word “see” and the related words “perceives,” “notices,” “observes,” and so on, one can see that the purported phenomenological distinction between the sensory given and what goes beyond the sensory given fails to correspond to the language we use to describe the distinction, though not entirely. Reviewing some key mid-twentieth-century debates...
The Anatomy of Experience December 12, 2025 Jody Azzouni
Abstract Attending to when we do and do not metacognize during inference, we can recognize two forms of inferential experience: “local-followness,” which labels the experience that a proposition follows from previous propositions, and, second, mechanical rule-following, the experience that we have when we see that one proposition results from the application of a set of rules to other...
The Anatomy of Experience December 12, 2025 Jody Azzouni
Abstract Here, “content” is construed broadly, as everything presented to us during an experience, not the more restrictive “propositional” content. An interesting feature of visual phenomenology is that what we are aware of and not aware of is not experientially accessible. Our experience of objects can involve epiphanies, where we are unaware of the visual details that determine our seeing...