Amodal completion and relationalism.
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Peer-reviewed
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Nanay, Bence https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2835-6530
Abstract
Amodal completion is usually characterized as the representation of those parts of the perceived object that we get no sensory stimulation from. In the case of the visual sense modality, for example, amodal completion is the representation of occluded parts of objects we see. I argue that relationalism about perception, the view that perceptual experience is constituted by the relation to the perceived object, cannot give a coherent account of amodal completion. The relationalist has two options: construe the perceptual relation as the relation to the entire perceived object or as the relation to the unoccluded parts of the perceived object. I argue that neither of these options are viable.
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Amodal completion, Perceptual phenomenology, Perceptual representation, Relationalism, Representationalism
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Philos Stud
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0031-8116
1573-0883
1573-0883
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179
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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European Research Council (726251)
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