Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy of Perception

This book draws on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology to develop new solutions to contemporary debates about perception. In providing an extension and defense of Merleau-Ponty's account of perceptual content and of the relation between perception and the world, it demonstrates the value of Merleau-Ponty's insights for Philosophy of Perception.

Peter Antich is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dominican University New York, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Motivation and the Primacy of Perception: Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Knowledge (2021).

Introduction Part 1: The Sense of Perception 1. Perceptual Sense 2. Rich and Thin Contents 3. Practical Perception Part 2: Perception and World 4. Perceptual Presence 5. Realism and Idealism 6. The Problem of Perception