Maxime Doyon & Thiemo Breyer 
Normativity in Perception 

The ways in which human action and rationality are guided by norms are well documented in philosophy and neighboring disciplines. But how do norms shape the way we experience the world perceptually? The present volume explores this question and investigates the specific normativity inherent to perception.

Table of Content

Introduction

PART I: FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS

1. On Getting a Good Look: Normativity and Visual Experience; Charles Siewert

2. Perception and Normative Self-Consciousness; Maxime Doyon

3. Seeing Our World; Michael Madary

PART II: DELUSIONS, ILLUSIONS, AND HALLUCINATIONS

4. Illusions and Perceptual Norms as Spandrels of the Temporality of Living; David Morris

5. How is Perceptual Experience Possible? The Phenomenology of Presence and the Nature of Hallucination; Matthew Ratcliffe

PART III: THE SOCIOCULTURAL EMBEDDEDNESS OF NORMS

6. Seeing Things in the Right Way: How Social Interaction Shapes Perception; Shaun Gallagher

7. Normality and Normativity in Experience; Maren Wehrle

8. Social Visibility and Perceptual Normativity; Thiemo Breyer

PART IV: ISSUES IN EPISTEMOLOGY

9. Perception and Its Givenness; Aude Bandini

10. The Normative Force of Perceptual Justification; Arnaud Dewalque

11. Evidence as Norm of Normativity in Perception; Virginie Palette

12. The Grammar of Sensation; Valérie Aucouturier

Index

About the author

Valérie Aucouturier, Brussels Free University, Belgium Aude Bandini, Université de Montréal, Canada Thiemo Breyer, University of Cologne, Germany and Harvard University, US Arnaud Dewalque, Université de Liège, Belgium Maxime Doyon, Université de Montréal, Canada Shaun Gallagher, University of Memphis, US Michael Madary, University of Mainz, Germany David Morris, Concordia University, Canada Virginie Palette, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile Matthew Ratcliffe, University of Vienna, Austria Charles Siewert, Rice University, US Maren Wehrle, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium