Two Questions About Social Perception and Reflections Coming From Visual Arts
Among the problems addressed in the area of philosophy of perception,there are those that deal with the ways in which people are perceived sensorily by other people.Here I refer to them as the problems ofsocial perception.My aim is to reflect on two of them:"What grounds to perceive someone as a person and not as something else?" as well as "What grounds perceiving a person in different ways?" To tackle these problems,I draw on a set of examples and perspectives on perceiving someone as a person by paying attention to reflections coming from depicting people in the visual arts.I make the case that:1.Perceiving someone as a person is constituted primarily by how the one perceived conceives and performs herself,and 2.A perceptual effort occurs on the part of the person doing the perceiving.Additionally,in my study,perceiving people in different manners results in a necessary condition to perceive someone as a person.From this,to perceive someone as a person is not a straightforward,effortless or common event as we might expect.
Perceiving peoplePosing in visual artsConceiving ourselvesVisual representations of peoplePerceptual effort
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