Alva Noë
American philosopher of mind and cognitive science, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for an enactive approach to perception; author of Action in Perception, Out of Our Heads, and Strange Tools.
Books
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1. Action In Perception
The book argues that perception is not a passive, internal reconstruction of the world but an active, embodied skill: to perceive is to know how sensory stimulation would change as one moves, and this mastery of sensorimotor dependencies links mind and world. It challenges representational, head-bound accounts of perception and consciousness, emphasizing that perceptual experience depends on bodily activity, practical know-how, and engagement with the environment rather than on inner pictorial models or purely neural processes.
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