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Does Visual Spatial Awareness Require the Visual Awareness of Space?

Schwenkler, Dr. John (2011) Does Visual Spatial Awareness Require the Visual Awareness of Space? [Journal (Paginated)] (In Press)

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Many philosophers have held that it is not possible to experience a spatial object, property, or relation except against the background of an intact awareness of a space that is somehow ‘absolute’. This paper challenges that claim, by analyzing in detail the case of a brain-damaged subject whose visual experiences seem to have violated this condition: spatial objects and properties were present in his visual experience, but space itself was not. I go on to suggest that phenomenological argumentation can give us a kind of evidence about the nature of the mind even if this evidence is not absolutely incorrigible.

Item Type:Journal (Paginated)
Keywords:spatial representation, visual perception, Balint's syndrome, phenomenology
Subjects:Neuroscience > Neuropsychology
Psychology > Perceptual Cognitive Psychology
Philosophy > Philosophy of Mind
ID Code:7619
Deposited By: Schwenkler, Dr John
Deposited On:17 Sep 2011 17:45
Last Modified:18 May 2012 14:25

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