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James
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James -- thinking about vision, attention and determinable properties.
Post-Doc, Philosophy
Bersoff Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow
Thesis Title: Attention and the Indeterminacy of Visual Experience
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John Campbell
Alva Noe |
About
My research is mainly in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, typically from an epistemological angle. In particular, I'm interested in the interface between perceptual epistemology and the scientific study of perception. I argue that the experience of determinable properties has an important role here, which sometimes involves doing a little metaphysics.
My current projects are about the epistemic role of attention, the epistemological consequences of cognitive penetration, and Molyneux's Question.
My PhD dissertation is about the effects of attention on visual experience, and their implications for epistemology. I argue that, to understand the nature and epistemic role of attention consistently with these effects, we need to recognize a certain indeterminacy in conscious vision: visual experience is experience of determinable properties, and visual attention affects which of these properties we see.
I also have serious interests in sounds and auditory perception, spatial awareness and cognitive maps, the theory of properties, and various topics in ancient philosophy.
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