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X-The Agential Profile of Perceptual Experience

Thomas Crowther

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback) September 1, 2010 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9264.2010.00285.x (opens in new tab)

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Key points Argues that agential factors can partly determine the phenomenal character of perceptual experience, and proposes an account of how active and passive elements relate in activities like watching and looking.

Abstract

Reflection on cases involving the occurrence of various types of perceptual activity suggests that the phenomenal character of perceptual experience can be partly determined by agential factors. I discuss the significance of these kinds of case for the dispute about phenomenal character that is at the core of recent philosophy of perception. I then go on to sketch an account of how active and passive elements of phenomenal character are related to one another in activities like watching and looking at things.