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Brewer, Bill, Dr. (2011) Realism and explanation in perception. In: Roessler, Johannes and Lerman, Hemdat and Eilan, Naomi, (eds.) Perception, Causation, and Objectivity. Consciousness and self-consciousness . Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199692040
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Abstract
Contemporary philosophical debates about causation are dominated by two approaches, which are often referred to as difference-making and causal process approaches to causation, respectively. I provide a characterization of the dialectic between these two approaches, on which that dialectic turns crucially on the question as to whether our common sense concept of causation involves a commitment to locality – i.e., to the claim that causal relations are always subject to spatial constraints. I then argue that we can extract from existing work on perceptual judgement (specifically work that invokes the notion of a simple theory of perception) materials for an argument in favour of a positive answer to that question, and that this work can also help to bring out a distinctive kind of role that a commitment to locality plays in our reasoning about causal relationships.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Perception (Philosophy), Realism, Explanation | ||||
| Series Name: | Consciousness and self-consciousness | ||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | ||||
| ISBN: | 9780199692040 | ||||
| Book Title: | Perception, Causation, and Objectivity | ||||
| Editor: | Roessler, Johannes and Lerman, Hemdat and Eilan, Naomi | ||||
| Official Date: | 2011 | ||||
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| Number of Pages: | 372 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199692040.003.0013 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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