Browsing University of Hertfordshire by Author "Coates, Paul"

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    • Brandom's Two-Ply Error 

      Coates, Paul; de Vries, W.H. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2010)
      Robert Brandom’s discussion of Sellars’s two-ply account of observation in his Tales of the Mighty Dead makes several crucial errors that would make Sellars’s analysis of “looks”-sentences incoherent. Brandom does not ...

    • Chess, Imagination and Perceptual Understanding 

      Coates, Paul (Cambridge University Press, 2013-11)
      This paper examines the role of the imagination in the way that human chess players (as contrasted with computers) exercise their understanding of both tactics and strategy. Phenomenological investigation of the way chess ...

    • Current issues in idealism 

      Coates, Paul; Hutto, D. (Continuum, 1996)
      Focused on the idealist/realist dispute, contributors also discuss the relation of idealism to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology. The volume further explores the differences between ontological and conceptual forms of ...

    • Deviant Causal Chains and Hallucination : A Problem for the Anti-Causalist 

      Coates, Paul (2000)

    • Experience, action and representations : Critical realism and the enactive theory of vision 

      Coates, Paul (2007)
      This paper defends a dynamic model of the way in which perception is integrated with action, a model I refer to as ‘the navigational account’. According to this account, employing vision and other forms of distance perception, ...

    • Hallucinations and the Transparency of Perception 

      Coates, Paul (MIT Press, 2013-08)
      This paper examines the way in which concepts of a low-level classificatory kind occur in different kinds of experiences, and what happens when subjects of deceptive musical hallucinations re-assess their experiences and ...

    • The Inaugural Address: Perception and metaphysical scepticism 

      Coates, Paul (1998)
      In this paper I introduce and critically examine a paradox about perceiving that is in some ways analogous to the paradox about meaning which Kripke puts forward in his exegesis of Wittgenstein's views on Rule-following. ...

    • Kripke's sceptical paradox : normativeness and meaning 

      Coates, Paul (1986)
      Saul Kripke's recent discussion of Wittgenstein's later philosophy presents a powerful sceptical paradox. The conclusion of it is that no facts about an individual considered on his own determine what he means by his words. ...

    • Meaning, mistake and miscalculation 

      Coates, Paul (1997)
      The issue of what distinguishes systems which have original intentionalityfrom those which do not has been brought into sharp focus by Saul Kripke inhis discussion of the sceptical paradox he attributes to Wittgenstein.In ...

    • The Metaphysics of Perception: Wilfrid Sellars, Perceptual Consciousness, and Critical Realism 

      Coates, Paul (Routledge, 2007)
      A defence of the Causal Theory of Perception, defending and extending original insights deriving from Wilfrid Sellars and the american Critical Realists. The work defends a dual component theory of experience, arguing that ...

    • The Multiple Contents of Experience : Representation and the Awareness of Phenomenal Qualities 

      Coates, Paul (2009)
      This paper examines the contents of perceptual experience, and focuses in particular on the relation between the representational aspects of an experience and its phenomenal character. It is argued that the Critical Realist ...

    • Neuro-Cosmology 

      Coleman, Sam (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015-08-20)
      I argue from the an identity theory of the mind (with the brain) plus the irreducibility of qualia to a neutral monist position about matter throughout the universe.

    • Perception Imagination and Demonstrative Reference 

      Coates, Paul (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2010)
      This paper examines the contents of perceptual experience, and focuses in particular on the relation between the representational aspects of an experience and its phenomenal character. It is argued that the Critical Realist ...

    • Perception Naturalised: Relocation and the Sensible Qualities 

      Coates, Paul (2017-09-12)
      This paper offers a partial defence of a Sellarsian-inspired form of scientific realism. It defends the relocation strategy that Sellars adopts in his project of reconciling the manifest and scientific images. It concentrates ...

    • Projection Revelation and the Function of Perception 

      Coates, Paul (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015-08-20)

    • Swinburne on thought and consciousness 

      Coates, Paul (1987)
      Some years ago H. H. Price put forward a dispositional account of thinking, suggesting that we are never directly aware of our thoughts as such, and claiming that we are, at most, conscious of inner word images (auditory ...

    • Wilfred Sellars, perceptual consciousness and theories of attention 

      Coates, Paul (2004)
      The problem of the richness of visual experience is that of finding principled grounds for claims about how much of the world a person actually sees at any given moment. It is argued that there are suggestive parallels ...