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Between Perception and Action (Hardcover)
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Between Perception and Action (Hardcover)
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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 you 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? Bence Nanay calls these
representations that make it possible for you to grab the apple
'pragmatic representations'. In Between Perception and Action he
argues 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 mind of
non-human animals, has been selected for allowing us to perform
actions successfully. And 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.
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