We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
La atención y los límites de la experiencia consciente.
- Authors
Pereira, Francisco
- Abstract
The phenomenological conception of common sense inspired by James (1890) claims that attending is essentially a conscious mental phenomenon. The modal philosophical implications of this thesis regarding the nature of attention are clear. It is not possible to attend something without being conscious of that thing. On the basis of classical studies on visual pathologies such as blindsight and recent experiments with non-pathological subjects, this paper argues that the Jamesian philosophical conclusion regarding the metaphysics of attention is false. Evidence suggests that in fact it is possible to attend to objects without consciously experiencing them.
- Subjects
CONSCIOUSNESS; BLINDSIGHT (Visual perception); COMMON sense; PHENOMENOLOGY; METAPHYSICS
- Publication
Filosofia UNISINOS, 2015, Vol 16, Issue 2, p145
- ISSN
1519-5023
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4013/fsu.2015.162.04