Title

Visual Transparency

Authors

Jeff Engelhardt, Dickinson College

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2009

Department

Philosophy

Language

English

Publication Title

Teorema

Abstract

According to Roderick Chisholm, one distinctive characteristic of mental phenomena is that they relate to their objects "under an aspect'": Lois Lane admires the one object that is both Superman and Clark Kent as "Superman" but not as "Clark Kent". This paper argues that visual attention exhibits no such characteristic. This suggests that attention is an exceptional mental phenomenon, and understanding it may provide insight into mind-body or mind-world relations.

Comments

Published as:
Engelhardt, Jeff. "Visual Transparency." Teorema 28, no. 1 (2009): 5-20.

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Recommended Citation

Engelhardt, Jeff, "Visual Transparency" (2009). Dickinson College Faculty Publications. Paper 100.
https://scholar.dickinson.edu/faculty_publications/100