Defending the liberal-content view of perceptual experience: direct social perception of emotions and person impressions.
The debate about direct perception encompasses different topics, one of which concerns the richness of the contents of perceptual experiences. Can we directly perceive only low-level properties, like edges, colors etc. (the sparse-content view), or can we perceive high-level properties and entities...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 194; no. 3; pp. 761 - 786 |
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