Perception Cognition and Aesthetics

<p>This volume addresses key questions related to how content in thought is derived from perceptual experience. It includes chapters that focus on single issues on perception and cognition as well as others that relate these issues to an important social construct that involves both perceptual experience and cognitive activities: aesthetics. While the volume includes many diverse views several prominent themes unite the individual essays: a challenge to the notion of the discreet and non-temporal unit of perception a challenge to the traditional divide between perception and cognition and a challenge to the traditional divide between unconscious and conscious intentionality. Additionally the chapters discuss the content of perceptual experience the value of traditional notions of content disjunctivism adverbialism and phenomenal experience. The final section of essays dealing with perception and cognition in aesthetics features work in experimental aesthetics and unique perspectives from artists and gallerists working outside of philosophy. <i>Perception Cognition and Aesthetics </i>is a timely volume that offers a range of unique perspectives on debates in philosophy of mind surrounding perception and cognition. It will also appeal to scholars working in aesthetics and art theory who are interested in the ways these debates influence our understanding of art. </p>