Description: In this book, Brit Brogaard defends the view that visual experience is like belief in having a representational content. Her defense differs from most previous defenses of this view in that it begins by looking at the language of ordinary speech. She provides a linguistic analysis of what we say when we say that things look a certain way or that the world appears to us to be a certain way. She then argues that this analysis can be used to argue for the view that visual experience has a representation content that mediates between you and the world when you visually perceive.
Review Quotes: "In Seeing and Saying, Berit Brogaard provides a novel, interesting and extensive defence of the representational view on perceptual experience...it is also a well-argued and important book that engages with empirical research on perception and sets a new and interesting path for philosophers interested in the representational view on experience." -- Anna Drozdzowicz, University of Oslo, Metascience
"Brogaard (Univ. of Miami) offers a sophisticated defense of a representational model of visual experience as opposed to a relational account of visual experience.Â..Brogaard examines objections to her position, including why anyone should take language as a guide to how the mind works. She covers the debate in detail, offering an excellent and thorough overview, albeit it from a distinctive point of view...Summing Up: Essential." -- CHOICE