? Credit Points : 20  ? SCQF Level : 10  ? Acronym : PPL-3-Per-PH

The course will cover contemporary analytic theories of perception and perceptual experience, such as sense-data accounts, causal theories and disjunctive conceptions, and modern representationalist theories.

? Keywords : perception, perceptual experience, theories of perception, nonconceptual content

? Pre-requisites : Philosophy 2A

Home subject area

Philosophy, (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Schedule I)

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 20 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

To develop further the philosophical skills, and to extend as well as deepen the philosophical knowledge, acquired in previous philosophy courses.

This course will be assessed by participation in the seminar including a short presentation (10%), one short (approx. 1500 word) essay (35%) due roughly half way through the semester, and a final long (approx. 3000 word) essay (55%) due before the end of the semester.

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Mrs Moira Avraam
Tel : (0131 6)50 3661
Email : Moira.Avraam@ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Dr Josefa Toribio-Mateas
Tel : (0131 6)50 3654
Email : j.toribio@ed.ac.uk

Course Website : http://www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk/ug_study/ug_honours/ug_hons_index .html

School Website : http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/