MULTIPLE DRAFTS: PERCEPTION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION - outline
I . ASSUMPTIONS
i. | The materialist assumption | |
ii. | First imagine a person | |
iii. | The structure by means of which | |
iv. | We forget what it is we're explaining | |
v . | Gibson understood that the brain is the real eye | |
vi . | Certain sorts of mental talk |
II. DENNETT
i. | There are three key assumptions | |
ii. | Imagine it this ways Dennett says | |
iii. | Our senses do not bring exhibits | |
iv. | A judgment in Dennett isn't a sentence either | |
v . | Dennett's second assumption | |
vi . | Dennett explains sensory engagement | |
vii. | A thinking state might be |
III. MYTHS
i. | What kind of body this mind is | |
ii. | These images which pass off from things | |
iii. | The instabilities of reference we feel | |
iv. | Thus Hume's explanatory dynamics | |
v . | Central terms such as 'a perception' |
IV. REPRESENTATIONAL METAPHOR
i. | A representation is a representing object | |
ii. | Representation has no business in the brain | |
iii. | There is a way to use 'representation' carefully | |
iv. | Yolton makes the interesting suggestion | |
v . | Akins says Dennett's question is | |
vi . | How to talk about colour phi is evident | |
vii. | Does this mean we can never think about a minute ago? |
V. "CONSCIOUS AWARENESS AS PEOPLE REDUNDANTLY SAY"
i. | We could say 'experience' is this flux | |
ii. | To say Consciousness' is imaginary | |
iii. | "Always get rid of the idea of a private object" | |
iv. | Imagine a philosopher trying not to forget | |
v . | When I say, what is memory like | |
vi . | "The very 'feel' of our phenomenology" | |
vii. | "Narrative stream:" |