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Understanding Perceptual Representation

Research Project

Project/Area Number 25770003
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Philosophy/Ethics
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

O'DEA John  東京大学, 教養学部, 准教授 (50534377)

Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
KeywordsPhilosophy of perception / 知覚の哲学 / 知覚哲学 / perceptual constancy / 知覚の恒常性 / 分析哲学 / analytic philosophy
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research focused on the structure of perceptual representation, particularly in the context of perceptual constancy. I particularly focussed on the question of whether perceptual experience includes awareness both of object features and also of subjective features of the experience, and if the latter are different from awareness of perceiver-involving relational features (features which are objective, such as distance from the perceiver, and yet by nature are perceiver-involving). Much of my research focussed particularly on the perception of colour and lightness, and in connection to these, the perception of illumination. I found that the link between colour/lightness and illumination in perception can be captured in some way through existing uses of multidimensional scaling.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2015 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2015 2014 2013

All Presentation (8 results) (of which Invited: 2 results) Funded Workshop (1 results)

  • [Presentation] Do Shadows Make Surfaces look Dark?2015

    • Author(s)
      John O'Dea
    • Organizer
      The Message in the Shadow: noise or knowledge? (Dagstuhl Seminar 15192)
    • Place of Presentation
      Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
    • Year and Date
      2015-05-03
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] What is a Sense Modality? Replies to Objections2014

    • Author(s)
      John O'Dea
    • Organizer
      50th Tokyo Colloquium on Cognitive Philosophy
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2014-11-26
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Perceptual Constancy and Subjective/Objective Modes of Perception2014

    • Author(s)
      John O'Dea
    • Organizer
      Asia Pacific Conference on Vision
    • Place of Presentation
      Kagawa International Convention Hall, Takamatsu, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2014-07-19 – 2014-07-22
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Sounds and What We Hear2014

    • Author(s)
      John O'Dea
    • Organizer
      1st Todai Philosophy of Perception Workshop
    • Place of Presentation
      Department of Philosophy, University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2014-07-05
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Why, and in what sense, things look different in the shade2014

    • Author(s)
      John O'Dea
    • Organizer
      Rethinking the Senses: Uniting the Philosophy and Neuroscience of Perception
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Why, and in what sense, things look different in the shade2014

    • Author(s)
      John O'Dea
    • Organizer
      Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Lecture
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The Problem of Sound2013

    • Author(s)
      John O'Dea
    • Organizer
      Tokyo Colloquium of Cognitive Philosophy
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Tokyo, Komaba, Tokyo
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Quality Spaces and Perceptual Experience2013

    • Author(s)
      John O'Dea
    • Organizer
      Mind and Language Workshop
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Funded Workshop] The Second UTokyo Workshop on Philosophy of Perception2015

    • Place of Presentation
      The University of Tokyo, Komaba campus, Meguro, Tokyo
    • Year and Date
      2015-10-24
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2014-07-25   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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