A small, curated set of foundational texts in philosophy of mind, attention, and perception. Each entry preserves a reference copy and links to the original source where one is available. Rights to all papers remain with their original authors and publishers.
McGinn argues that consciousness arises from the brain through some natural property P, but that our concept-forming faculties may be constitutionally unable to grasp P — leaving the mind–body problem not false or mystical, but cognitively closed to us. The founding statement of “mysterianism.”
Proposes that simple visual features (colour, orientation, motion) are registered automatically and in parallel, while focused attention is required to bind them into objects. Introduces illusory conjunctions and the visual-search paradigm that shaped decades of attention research.
Applies ecological and event-perception theory to cinema, treating the viewer as actively segmenting and structuring a continuous stream into coherent perceptual events rather than passively receiving images.
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