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Qualitative character and sensory representation.

Douglas B Meehan1

  • 1City University of New York Graduate Center, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, New York, NY 10016-4309, USA. dbmeehan@yahoo.com

Consciousness and Cognition
|December 10, 2002
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Perceptual experiences have both intentional and qualitative features. This study argues that sensory qualities are representational, not nonrepresentational, offering a unified view of sensory representation and qualitative character.

Area of Science:

  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Cognitive Science
  • Perception

Background:

  • Perceptual experience is characterized by intentionality and qualitative character.
  • Philosophical accounts distinguish between representational and nonrepresentational aspects of perception.
  • Previous theories propose that qualitative character is determined by intrinsic, nonrepresentational properties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To re-evaluate the nature of sensational properties in perceptual experience.
  • To argue that sensational properties should be construed as representational, not nonrepresentational.
  • To propose a unified account of qualitative character and nonconceptual sensory representation.

Main Methods:

  • Critical analysis of existing philosophical arguments on perceptual experience.

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  • Reinterpretation of sensational properties within a representational framework.
  • Development and application of the Homomorphism View of sensory qualities.

    • Main Results:

    • Sensational properties are best understood as representational, not nonrepresentational.
    • These properties are nonconceptual but representational.
    • The Homomorphism View provides a unified account of sensory qualities.

    Conclusions:

    • The distinction between representational and nonrepresentational properties in perception needs revision.
    • Sensory qualities represent perceptible properties through analogical resemblance.
    • This framework offers a novel understanding of the qualitative character of perception.