Sentience and Sapience: The Place of Enactive Cognitive Science in Sellarsian Philosophy of Mind

In David Pereplyotchik & Deborah Barnbaum (eds.), Sellars and Contemporary Philosophy. New York, NY, USA: pp. 104-119 (2017)
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Abstract

I argue that Sellars's philosophy of perception can be reconciled with recent work in enactive cognitive science. Sellars's critical realism holds that we perceive physical objects with perceptible properties as causally mediated by how these objects affect our sensory receptors. I argue that this theory, while basically right, downplays the role of embodiment in perception: perception essentially involves sensorimotor abilities. I argue that embodied critical realism can resolve the debate between Coates and Noe.

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Carl Sachs
Marymount University

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