Determinability of perception as homogeneity of representation

Verdejo Aparicio, Víctor Martín

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13164-017-0338-3

Determinability of perception as homogeneity of representation

Citation

Verdejo VM. Determinability of perception as homogeneity of representation. Rev Philos Psychol. 2018 Mar;9(1):33-47. DOI: 10.1007/s13164-017-0338-3

Abstract

Recent philosophical and empirical contributions strongly suggest that perception attributes determinable properties to its objects. But a characterisation of determinability via attributed properties is restricted to the level of content and does not capture the difference between perceptual belief and perception on this score. In this paper, I propose a formal way of cashing out the difference between determinable belief and perception. On the view presented here, determinability in perception distinctively involves homogeneous representation or representation that exhibits special sorts of formal type variability. This formal characterisation, I suggest, goes beyond traditional approaches to analog representation and parallels a baseline notion of analog computation.