The Cognitive Penetrability of Perception
New Philosophical Perspectives
Edited by John Zeimbekis and Athanassios Raftopoulos
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Edited by John Zeimbekis, University of Patras, Greece, and Athanassios Raftopoulos, University of Cyprus
John Zeimbekis is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Patras. He works on the philosophy of perception, especially demonstrative thought, the metaphysics of qualities, and the relations between thought, perception, imagery, memory, and pictures. He has published papers on perception in Noûs and Philosophical Studies. He also works on topics in aesthetics and is the author of a book on aesthetic value, Qu'est-ce qu'un Jugement Esthétique (Paris, Vrin, 2006).
Athanassios Raftopoulos is Professor of Epistemology and Cognitive Science in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cyprus. He is the author of Cognition and Perception: How Do Psychology and Neural Sciences Inform Philosophy (MIT, 2009), and co-author with Philippos Kargopoulos of The Science of Logic and the Art of Thinking (Equinox, 1999). He is editor of Cognitive Penetrability of Perception: Attention, Action, Planning, and Bottom-up Constraints (Nova Science, 2005), co-editor of Perception, Realism, and the Problem of Reference (CUP, 2012), and of Cognitive Developmental Change: Theories, Models and Measurement (CUP, 2004). Raftopoulos has published over one hundred papers on the philosophy of science, cognitive science, perception, epistemology, and philosophy of mind.
Contributors:
Robert Briscoe, Ohio University
Daniel C. Burnston, University of California, San Diego
Jonathan Cohen, University of California, San Diego
Ophelia Deroy, The Institute of Philosophy at the University of London
Jérôme Dokic, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Fred Dretske, formerly Stanford University / Duke University
Jonathan Lowe, formerly Durham University
Jack C. Lyons, University of Arkansas
Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh
Fiona Macpherson, University of Glasgow
Brad Mahon, University of Rochester
Jean-Rémy Martin, University of Sussex
Christopher Mole, University of British Columbia
Costas Pagondiotis, University of Patras, Greece
Athanassios Raftopoulos, University of Cyprus
Susanna Siegel, Harvard University.
Dustin Stokes, University of Utah
Wayne Wu, Carnegie Mellon University
John Zeimbekis, University of Patras