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Tweaking the concepts of perception and cognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

Ned Block
Ned Block*
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Department of Philosophy, New York University, New York NY 10003. ned.block@nyu.edu http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/
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Abstract

One approach to the issue of a joint in nature between perception and cognition is to investigate whether the concepts of perception and cognition can be tweaked to avoid direct, content-specific effects of cognition on perception.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e232
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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