TY - BOOK AU - Tomaszewska, Anna AB - The book addresses the debate on whether the representational content of perceptual experience is conceptual or non-conceptual, by bringing out the points of comparison between Kant’s conception of intuition and the contemporary accounts of non-conceptual content, encountered in the writings of G. Evans, Ch. Peacocke, F. Dretske, T. Crane, M. G. F. Martin, and others. Following R. Aquila’s reading of Kant’s conception of representation, the author argues that intuition (Anschauung, intuitus) provides the most basic form of intentionality – pre-conceptual reference to objects, which underlies the acts of conceptualization and judgment. The book advances an interpretation of Kant’s theory of experience in the light of such questions as: Does conscious perceptual experience of objects require that subjects possess concepts of these objects? Do the contents of experience differ from the contents of beliefs or judgments? And if they do, what accounts for this difference? These questions take us to the most puzzling philosophical topic of the relation between mind and world. Anna Tomaszewska argues that this relation does not involve conceptual capacities alone but also, on the most basic level of perceptual experience, pre-cognitive “sensible intuition,” enabling relatedness to objects that remains uninformed by concepts. In a nutshell, on her interpretation, Kant can be taken to subscribe to the view that perceptual cognition does not have rational underpinnings. DO - 10.2478/9783110372656 ID - OAPEN ID: 16487 KW - content of perception KW - embodied cognition KW - non-conceptualism KW - Kant KW - conceptualism L1 - https://doi.org/10.2478/9783110372656 LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/43984 PB - De Gruyter PY - 2014 SN - 9783110377286 SN - 9783110372656 TI - The Contents of Perceptual Experience. A Kantian Perspectivenull ER -