Perception and its objects |
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Authors: | Bill Brewer |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK |
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Abstract: | Early modern empiricists thought that the nature of perceptual experience is given by citing the object presented to the mind
in that experience. Hallucination and illusion suggest that this requires untenable mind-dependent objects. Current orthodoxy
replaces the appeal to direct objects with the claim that perceptual experience is characterized instead by its representational
content. This paper argues that the move to content is problematic, and reclaims the early modern empiricist insight as perfectly
consistent, even in cases of illusion, with the realist contention that these direct objects of perception are the persisting
mind-independent physical objects we all know and love.
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Keywords: | Direct object of perception Mind-independence Empirical realism Representational content Subjective character Illusion Hallucination Phenomenology Content view Object view |
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