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- Title
Attentive Visual Reference.
- Authors
Green, E. J.
- Abstract
Many have held that when a person visually attends to an object, her visual system deploys a representation that designates the object. Call the referential link between such representations and the objects they designate attentive visual reference. In this article I offer an account of attentive visual reference. I argue that the object representations deployed in visual attention-which I call attentive visual object representations (AVORs)-refer directly, and are akin to indexicals. Then I turn to the issue of how the reference of an AVOR is determined relative to a context. After raising problems for existing accounts, I propose a mechanism of reference determination that is both causal and descriptive: For an AVOR to refer to a particular object, the object must appropriately cause the deployment of the AVOR, and the AVOR must be associated with descriptive information about some of the object's geometrical and mereological properties.
- Subjects
VISUAL perception; ATTENTION; REFERENCE (Philosophy); REPRESENTATION (Philosophy); DESCRIPTIVE psychology
- Publication
Mind & Language, 2017, Vol 32, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0268-1064
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/mila.12131