Phenomenology and the Norms of Perception by Doyon, Maxime

Phenomenology and the Norms of Perception

In the philosophical literature, it is customary to think of perception as being assessable with respect to...
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Phenomenology and the Norms of Perception by Doyon, Maxime

Phenomenology and the Norms of Perception

$376.55

Phenomenology and the Norms of Perception

$376.55
Author: Maxime Doyon
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In the philosophical literature, it is customary to think of perception as being assessable with respect to epistemic norms. E.g., the whole discussion around disjunctivism, which is now often considered to be the dominant, if not the default position in philosophy of perception, is, by and large, framed and motivated by epistemological concerns about truth and falsity. This book argues that perception is normative in another, more fundamental sense. Perception is governed by norms that Doyon calls perceptual, that is, immanent to its own structure. This does not mean that perceptual norms are cut-off from external facts; it rather means that they are constitutive moments of our experience of these facts. Perceptual norms are, in that sense, constitutive or enabling norms in that they establish what perception is. To articulate this view, he draws in the repertoire of the phenomenological tradition, in the work of Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty in particular. Like Kant, both phenomenologists were concerned with the question of the unity of experience and sought to identify the conditions of possibility for having a perception, which they conceive not as a mere sensible experience of the outer world, but as a continuous and meaningful experience of reality. Unlike Kant, however, neither phenomenologist immediately identified these conditions with cognition or epistemic criteria. For both phenomenologists, perception has its own standards, its own conditions of possibility. Perception obtains when it unfolds concordantly or coherently; and when the perceptual progression corresponds to or is in harmony with one's goal or interest, perception can also be said to be optimal. From the phenomenological point of view, concordance (Einstimmigkeit) and optimality (Optimalität) are the two basic perceptual norms governing over perceptual experience, and much of the book is devoted to clarifying their meaning and to address the philosophical consequences that follow from this insight.

Author: Maxime Doyon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 09/14/2024
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780198884224

About the Author
Maxime Doyon, Professor of Philosophy, Université de Montréal

Maxime Doyon is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Université de Montréal, Canada. He earned his PhD in 2009 at the Husserl Archive of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, and was postdoctoral research fellow at McGill University and University of Chicago, and more recently Humboldt fellow at the Universität-zu-Köln and at the Centre for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on various topics and problems in philosophy perception, philosophy of mind, and especially phenomenology. He is the co-editor of the volume Normativity in Perception (2015).

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