Schellenberg S. The unity of perception: content, consciousness, evidence

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. — 268 p.Perception is our key to the world. It plays at least three different roles in our lives. It justifies beliefs and provides us with knowledge of our environment. It brings about conscious mental states. It converts informational input, such as light and sound waves, into representations of invariant features in our environment. Corresponding to these three roles, there are at least three fundamental questions that have motivated the study of perception. How does perception justify beliefs and yield knowledge of our environment? How does perception bring about conscious mental states? How does a perceptual system accomplish the feat of converting varying informational input into mental representations of invariant features in our environment? This book presents a unified account of the phenomenological and epistemological role of perception that is informed by empirical research.FoundationsPerceptual Particularity
Perceptual CapacitiesContent Particularism
Fregean Particularism
In Defense of Perceptual ContentConsciousnessPerceptual Consciousness as a Mental ActivityEvidence
Perceptual Evidence
Justification, Luminosity, and Credences
Perceptual Knowledge and Gettier Cases
Capacitism and Alternative Views