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RESEARCH PRODUCT
The Perception of Causality in Light of Process Ontology
subject
causal impression; causal nihilism; Michotte’s experiments; simple Humeanism; projected causal feelings; the sense of physicalitydescription
Human perception has an important emotional dimension. Besides having a “presentational” element that dominates the high cognitive activities of human beings, there are certain “densities of feelings,” which are inextricably intertwined with the presentational contents of our perceptual states. This does not mean that human perception is just instinctive, irrational, or intrinsically subjective. The Whiteheadian scheme allows us to determine the nature of the “emotional background” of perception without falling into the traps of subjectivism, representationalism, or substantialism. The feeling which I call “the sense of physicality” is just one of the elements of this emotional dimension in human perception, which serves here as an explanation of the famous “Michotte’s effect”.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-01-01 |