Between Perception and Action

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ID5847425
AuthorsBence Nanay (0000-0002-2835-6530, University of Antwerp and University of Cambridge, corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages224
Publication date2013-11-28
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueBetween Perception and Action (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199695379.001.0001
OpenAlexW2486630858
Open LibraryOL28513420M
ISBN9780199695379
LanguageEN
Citations received50
References cited476

What mediates between sensory input and motor output? This is probably the most basic question one can ask about the mind. There is stimulation on your retina, something happens in your skull, and then your hand reaches out to grab the apple in front of you. What is it that happens in between? What representations make it possible for you to grab this apple? The representations that make this possible could be labelled "pragmatic representations". The aim of the book is to argue that pragmatic representations whose function is to mediate between sensory input and motor output play an immensely important role in our mental life. And they help us to explain why the vast majority of what goes on in our mind is very similar to the simple mental processes of animals.The human mind, like the minds of non-human animals, has been selected for allowing us to perform actions successfully. The vast majority of our actions, like the actions of non-human animals, could not be performed without perceptual guidance, and what provides the perceptual guidance for performing actions are pragmatic representations. If we accept this framework, many classic questions in philosophy of perception and of action will look very different. The aim of this book is to trace the various consequences of this way of thinking about the mind in a number of branches of philosophy as well as in psychology and cognitive science

Action Observation and Synchronization · Child and Animal Learning Development · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Act (philosophy) · Erkenntnis · Filosofie van de geest · Handlung · Mentale representatie · Mind and body · Perception · Perception (Philosophy) · Philosophy · Philosophy of mind · Physiology · Psychomotor Performance · Sensorimotor Cortex · Wahrnehmung

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