Visual transparency

Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 28 (1):5-20 (2009)
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According to Roderick Chisholm, one distinctive characteristic of mental phenomena is that they relate to their objects "under an aspect'": Lois Lane admires the one object that is both Superman and Clark Kent as "Superman" but not as "Clark Kent". This paper argues that visual attention exhibits no such characteristic. This suggests that attention is an exceptional mental phenomenon, and understanding it may provide insight into mind-body or mind- world relations.

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Vision.David Marr - 1982 - W. H. Freeman.
Orienting of attention.M. I. Posner - 1980 - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 32 (1):3-25.
Attention: exporting vision to the mind.Patrick Cavanagh - 1999 - In C. Taddei-Ferretti & C. Musio (eds.), Neuronal Basis and Psychological Aspects of Consciousness. World Scientific. pp. 129-143.

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