In the last few years there has been an explosion of philosophical interest in perception; after decades of neglect, it is now one of the most fertile areas for new work. Perceptual Experience presents new work by fifteen of the world's leading philosophers. All papers are written specially for this volume, and they cover a broad range of topics dealing with sensation and representation, consciousness and awareness, and the connections between perception and knowledge and between perception and action. This will be the book on the philosophy of perception, a fascinating resource for philosophers and psychologists.

Contributors include John Campbell, David J. Chalmers, Tim Crane, Fred Dretske, Tamar Szabo Gendler, Anil Gupta, John Hawthorne, Susan Hurley, Mark Johnston, Geoffrey Lee, Eric Lormand, M. G. F. Martin, Alva Noe, Jesse J. Prinz, Sydney Shoemaker, Susanna Siegel, and Michael Tye.

"Perceptual Experience is an excellent collection of essays that shed light on the philosophical questions that many psychologists neglect...an important volume to add to one's library on perception."--PsycCRITIQUES

Introduction, Tamar Szabo Gendler, Yale University, and John Hawthorne, Oxford University

1. Manipulating Colour, John Campbell, University of California, Berkeley

2. Perception and the Fall from Eden, David J. Chalmers, RSSS, Australia

3. Is there a Perceptual Relation?, Tim Crane, University College London

4. Perception without Awareness, Fred Dretske, Duke University

5. Experience and Knowledge, Anil Gupta, University of Pittsburgh

6. Active Perception and Perceiving Action: The Shared Circuits Model, Susan Hurley, University of Warwick

7. The Function of Sensory Awareness, Mark Johnston, Princeton University

8. The Experience of Left and Right, Geoffrey Lee, New York University

9. Phenomenal Impressions, Eric Lormand, University of Michigan

10. On Being Alienated, M. G. F. Martin, University College London

11. Experience without the Head, Alva Noe, University of California, Berkeley

12. Beyond Appearances: The Content of Sensation and Perception, Jesse J. Prinz, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

13. On the Way Things Appear, Sydney Shoemaker, Cornell University

14. Which Properties are Represented in Perception?, Susanna Siegel, Harvard University

15. Nonconceptual Content, Richness, and Fineness of Grain, Michael Tye, The University of Texas at Austin