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On Block's delineation of the border between seeing and thinking

Christopher S. Hill

2024 · DOI: 10.1093/pq/pqae030
The Philosophical Quarterly · 64 Citations

Abstract

This note is concerned with Ned Block's claim that cognition differs from perception in being paradigmatically conceptual, propositional, and non-iconic. As against Block, it maintains that large stretches of cognition constitutively involve, or depend on, iconic representations.