Evaluative Perception

Evaluative Perception

Evaluative Perception

Evaluative Perception

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Overview

Evaluation is ubiquitous. Indeed, it isn't an exaggeration to say that we assess actions, character, events, and objects as good, cruel, beautiful, etc., almost every day of our lives. Although evaluative judgement - for instance, judging that an institution is unjust - is usually regarded as the paradigm of evaluation, it has been thought by some philosophers that a distinctive and significant kind of evaluation is perceptual. For example, in aesthetics, some have claimed that adequate aesthetic judgement must be grounded in the appreciator's first hand-hand perceptual experience of the item judged. In ethics, reference to the existence and importance of something like ethical perception is found in a number of traditions, for example, in virtue ethics and sentimentalism. This volume brings together philosophers working in aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of mind, and value theory to investigate what we call 'evaluative perception'. Specifically, they engage with (1) Questions regarding the existence and nature of evaluative perception: Are there perceptual experiences of values? If so, what is their nature? Are perceptual experiences of values sui generis? Are values necessary for certain kinds of perceptual experience? (2) Questions about epistemology: Can evaluative perceptual experiences ever justify evaluative judgements? Are perceptual experiences of values necessary for certain kinds of justified evaluative judgements? (3) Questions about value theory: Is the existence of evaluative perceptual experience supported or undermined by particular views in value theory? Are particular views in value theory supported or undermined by the existence of evaluative perceptual experience?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780191089206
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 06/06/2018
Series: Mind Association Occasional Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
File size: 878 KB

About the Author

Anna Bergqvist is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University and Director of the Values-Based Practice Theory Network at St Catherine's College University of Oxford. Her principal research interests are aesthetics and moral philosophy. She is co-editor of Philosophy and Museums (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and has also published on aesthetic and moral particularism, narrative, thick evaluative concepts and selected issues in philosophy of language and mind. Robert Cowan is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. His research is focused on ethics, epistemology and the philosophy of mind. In particular he is interested in the nature and epistemology of intuition, perception, and emotion, as well as the connections between these and accounts of ethical knowledge.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Anna Bergqvist and Robert Cowan
1. Rich Perceptual Content and Aesthetic Properties, Dustin Stokes
2. Can We Visually Experience Aesthetic Properties?, Heather Logue
3. Moral Perception Defended, Robert Audi
4. Evaluative Perception as Response Dependent Representation, Paul Noordhof
5. Doubts About Moral Perception, Pekka Vayrynen
6. Seeing Depicted Space (Or Not?), Mikael Pettersson
7. Perception of Absence as Value-Driven Perception, Anya Farennikova
8. Moral Perception and Its Rivals, Sarah McGrath
9. Perception and Intuition of Evaluative Properties, Jack C. Lyons
10. On the Epistemological Significance of Value Perception, Michael Milona
11. Epistemic Sentimentalism and Epistemic Reason-Responsiveness, Robert Cowan
12. Value Perception, Properties and the Primary Bearers of Value, Graham Oddie
13. Moral Perception, Thick Concepts and Perspectivalism, Anna Bergqvist
14. The Primacy of the Passions, James Lenman
15. Sexual Objectification, Objectifying Images, and 'Mind-Insensitive Seeing-As', Kathleen Stock
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