Perceptual Categories Derived from Reid’s “Common Sense” Philosophy

Frontiers in Psychology

Adam Reeves¹ 

关键词: sensation;    perception;    imagery;    category;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00893

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The 18th-century Scottish ‘common sense’ philosopher Thomas Reid argued that perception can be distinguished on several dimensions from other categories of experience, such as sensation, illusion, hallucination, mental images, and what he called ‘fancy.’ We extend his approach to eleven mental categories, and discuss how these distinctions, often ignored in the empirical literature, bear on current research. We also score each category on five properties (ones abstracted from Reid) to form a 5 × 11 matrix, and thus can generate statistical measures of their mutual dependencies, a procedure that may have general interest as illustrating what we can call ‘computational philosophy.’.

【 授权许可】

CC BY