title: Does Visual Spatial Awareness Require the Visual Awareness of Space?
creator: Schwenkler, Dr. John
subject: Neuropsychology
subject: Perceptual Cognitive Psychology
subject: Philosophy of Mind
description: 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.
date: 2011
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/7619/1/apriority%20thesis%20web.pdf
identifier:   Schwenkler, Dr. John  (2011) Does Visual Spatial Awareness Require the Visual Awareness of Space?  [Journal (Paginated)]    (In Press)  
relation: http://cogprints.org/7619/