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A central figure in Anglo-American philosophy for over four decades, Paul F. Snowdon made seminal contributions to the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and the history of twentieth-century philosophy. Snowdon's work on perception and perceptual experience--much of which is collected in this volume for the first time--was particularly influential and firmly established 'disjunctivism' as a view with which any theorist working in the field must reckon.
In the essays collected in the first part of this volume, Snowdon traces the contours of the concept of perception, refining his formulation of the disjunctivist position, determining the degree of involvement of the concept of causation, and engaging critically with arguments which aim to support sense-data theories. The second part contains critical examinations of the views propounded by several influential philosophers, amounting to a partial sketch of the history of twentieth-century philosophy of perception. Among the figures whose work Snowdon engages are J. L. Austin, A. J. Ayer, Michael Ayers, Michael Hinton, John McDowell, G. E. Moore, H. H. Price, Wilfrid Sellars, P. F. Strawson, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
The volume opens with a robust and intellectually generous introduction in which Snowdon describes the theoretical challenges, approaches, and themes that animate the set of interrelated problems addressed across all sixteen essays. Sprinkled throughout are an array of candid reflections that serve to illuminate both the substantive connections between the essays as well as the historical and circumstantial contexts that occasioned their writing.
Contents
Stephan Blatti: Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Issues
1: Perception, Vision and Causation
2: The Objects of Perceptual Experience
3: How to Interpret 'Direct Perception'
4: What is Realism?
5: The Formulation of Disjunctivism: A Response to Fish
6: Some Reflections on an Argument from Hallucination
7: McDowell on Skepticism, Disjunctivism, and Transcendental Arguments
8: On the What-It-Is-Like-ness of Experience
9: Perceptual Contents as Non-causal Concepts
10: Sense-Data
Part 2: Philosophers
11: G. E. Moore on Sense-Data and Perception
12: Private Experience and Sense-Data
13: Austin on the Philosophy of Perception
14: Some Sellarsian Myths
15: Hinton and the Origins of Disjunctivism
16: Strawson on the Concept of Perception
Works by Paul Snowdon
