creators_name: Schwenkler, John
creators_id: schwenkler@msmary.edu
type: journalp
datestamp: 2011-09-17 17:45:46
lastmod: 2012-05-18 14:25:37
metadata_visibility: show
title: Does Visual Spatial Awareness Require the Visual Awareness of Space?
ispublished: inpress
subjects: neuro-psy
subjects: percep-cog-psy
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: spatial representation, visual perception, Balint's syndrome, phenomenology
abstract: Many philosophers have held that it is not possible to experience a spatial object, property, or relation except against the background of an intact awareness of a space that is somehow ‘absolute’. This paper challenges that claim, by analyzing in detail the case of a brain-damaged subject whose visual experiences seem to have violated this condition: spatial objects and properties were present in his visual experience, 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.
date: 2011
date_type: completed
publication: Mind and Language
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Schwenkler, Dr. John  (2011) Does Visual Spatial Awareness Require the Visual Awareness of Space?  [Journal (Paginated)]    (In Press)  
document_url: http://cogprints.org/7619/1/apriority%20thesis%20web.pdf