Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy of Perception

This book draws on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology to develop new and promising 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 today.

The author focuses on two main topics: the contents and the nature of perception. In the first half of this book, the author tackles d...