Anti-Individualism and Perceptual Representation
Tyler Burge, Carlos Muñoz-suárez
Europe's Journal of Psychology December 5, 2014 DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v10i4.767 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Interview Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Perceptual representation Anti-individualism Psychological explanation Philosophical psychology Psychology of perception |
| Citations | 1 |
| Key points | Perceptual anti-individualism, which ties mental kind individuation to environmental relations, provides a framework that perceptual psychology implicitly assumed. |
Abstract
Tyler Burge's anti-individualism – the view that individuating many of a creature's mental kinds is necessarily dependent on relations that the creature bears to the physical, or in some cases social, environment – backs his theory of perceptual representation, i.e. perceptual anti-individualism. Perceptual anti-individualism articulates a framework that, according to Burge, perceptual psychology assumed without articulation. In this interview, Burge talks about the main tenets and underpinnings of perceptual anti-individualism in relation to classic representational theories of perceptual experience, reductive theories of mental content, theories of phenomenal consciousness, and other associated topics.