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Luntley, Michael. (2010) Expectations without content. Mind & Language, Vol.25 (No.2). pp. 217-236. ISSN 0268-1064

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0017.2009.01387.x

Abstract

In this paper I show how the way experience presents things to us can be treated without attributing a representational content to experience. The basic claim that experience can present us with more things than the range of things available to us in thought is neutral with respect to the choice between a content account of experience and a naive content-free account. I show how Meyer's theory of expectations in accounting for our experience of music supports the naive account. Expectations provide an account of the conditions that enable things to be salient in experience as targets for attention. Expectations do not provide a content to experience.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Subjects:

B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology

Divisions:

Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):

Experience, Content (Psychology)

Journal or Publication Title:

Mind & Language

Publisher:

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc

ISSN:

0268-1064

Official Date:

April 2010

Dates:

Date	Event
April 2010	Published

Volume:

Vol.25

Number:

No.2

Number of Pages:

Page Range:

pp. 217-236

Identification Number:

10.1111/j.1468-0017.2009.01387.x

Status:

Peer Reviewed

Publication Status:

Published

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