Date of Graduation
5-2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Philosophy (MA)
Degree Level
Graduate
Department
Philosophy
Advisor/Mentor
Jack Lyons
Committee Member
Amanda McMullen
Second Committee Member
Eric Funkhouser
Keywords
Characterization, Cognitive Penetration, Concept, Implicit Bias, Perception, Perspective
Abstract
In her analysis of perspectival effects on perception, Susanna Siegel has argued that perceptual experience is directly rationally assessable and can thereby justify perceptual beliefs, save for in cases of epistemic downgrade or perceptual hijacking; I contend that the recalcitrance of known illusions poses an insurmountable problem for Siegel’s thesis. In its place, I argue that a model of perceptual learning informed by the dual-aspect framework of base-level cognitive architecture proposed by Elisabeth Camp successfully answers the questions motivating Siegel’s project in a manner that avoids such issues.
Citation
Holdier, A. (2020). Perceptual Characterization: On Perceptual Learning and Perspectival Sedimentation. Graduate Theses and Dissertations Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/3656