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Fred Dretske What We See Watch this lecture online (UCTV) Lecture Description: We see (at least) three fundamentally different sorts of things: objects (a tomato), properties of these objects (the tomato's size, shape, color, orientation), and facts about them (that it is a tomato, that it is red). I shall be concerned with only the first: our perception of objects. I will furthermore restrict my topic by assuming, without argument, that the objects we see, in normal circumstances, are ordinary dry goods--tomatoes, pencils, people, trees and houses. I am interested in how many of these objects we see in brief, but attentive, observation. The answer to this question tells us something important about the nature of conscious perceptual experience. Fred Dretske specializes in epistemology and the philosophy of mind, with an emphasis upon self-knowledge and conscious experience. In 1994, he was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize in Paris, which annually recognizes the contributions of a leading philosopher of mind. Dretske is emeritus professor of philosophy at both Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin, and has served as senior research scholar in the philosophy department at Duke University since 1999.
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