Varieties of perceptual improvement

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Modularity
Expertise
Perceptual learning

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Varieties of perceptual improvement. (2023). Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 4. https://doi.org/10.33735/phimisci.2023.10264 (Original work published 2023)

Abstract

In this short comment on Dustin Stokes's Thinking and Perceiving, I attempt to clarify what is at stake in the debate between Fodorian modularists and Stokean anti-modularists. 

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