Are perspectival shapes seen or imagined? An experimental approach

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences - This paper proposes a novel experimental approach that would help to determine whether perspectival shapes, such as the elliptical profile of a tilted...     

A puzzle about seeing for representationalism

When characterizing the content of a subject’s perceptual experience, does their seeing an object entail that their visual experience represents it as being a certain way? If it does, are they thereby in a position to have perceptually-based thoughts about it? On one hand, representationalists are under pressure to answer these questions in the affirmative. On the other hand, it seems they cannot. This paper presents a puzzle to illustrate this tension within orthodox representationalism. We identify several interesting morals which may be drawn in response, each of which teaches us something interesting and important about perceptual experience and its interface with cognition and related phenomena.

     

Perceptual capacitism: an argument for disjunctive disunity

Philosophical Studies - According to capacitism, to perceive is to employ personal-level, perceptual capacities. In a series of publications, Schellenberg (2016, 2018, 2019b, 2020) has argued that...