On Perceiving Tropes

• Authors: Przemyslaw Spryszak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this short paper I consider Professor Bence Nanay’s suggestion that representationalism can be supported by the theory of tropes. I argue that from a philosophical point of view such a support is nevertheless not very strong.

Keywords

EN

Tropes; Representationalism; Perception

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studia Humana
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 13-15

Dates

published

2015-06-01

online

2015-07-24

Contributors

author

Przemyslaw Spryszak

• Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

References

• 1. Campbell, K., Abstract Particulars (Philosophical Theory), Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1990.
• 2. Nanay, B. Between Perception and Action. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013.
• 3. Nanay, B., Perceiving tropes. Erkenntnis, vol. 77, no. 1, 2012, p. 1-14.[WoS]
• 4. Spelke, E., Principles of object perception, Cognitive Science, vol. 14, 1990, pp. 29-56,
• 5. Spelke, E., Initial knowledge: Six suggestions, Cognition, vol. 50, 1994, pp. 431-445.

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/sh-2015-0012