Features, places, and things: Reflections on Austen Clark's theory of sentience

Philosophical Psychology 17 (4):497-518 (2004)
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The paper argues that material objects are the primary referents of visual states -- not places, as Austen Clark would have it in his A Theory of Sentience.

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