?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Does+Visual+Spatial+Awareness+Require+the+Visual+Awareness+of+Space%3F&rft.creator=Schwenkler%2C+Dr.+John&rft.subject=Neuropsychology&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=Many+philosophers+have+held+that+it+is+not+possible+to+experience+a+spatial+object%2C+property%2C+or+relation+except+against+the+background+of+an+intact+awareness+of+a+space+that+is+somehow+%E2%80%98absolute%E2%80%99.+This+paper+challenges+that+claim%2C+by+analyzing+in+detail+the+case+of+a+brain-damaged+subject+whose+visual+experiences+seem+to+have+violated+this+condition%3A+spatial+objects+and+properties+were+present+in+his+visual+experience%2C+but+space+itself+was+not.+I+go+on+to+suggest+that+phenomenological+argumentation+can+give+us+a+kind+of+evidence+about+the+nature+of+the+mind+even+if+this+evidence+is+not+absolutely+incorrigible.&rft.date=2011&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7619%2F1%2Fapriority%2520thesis%2520web.pdf&rft.identifier=++Schwenkler%2C+Dr.+John++(2011)+Does+Visual+Spatial+Awareness+Require+the+Visual+Awareness+of+Space%3F++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7619%2F