Journal of Philosophical Research

Volume 28, Issue Supplement, 2003

Philosophy in America at the Turn of the Century

George S. Pappas
Pages 71-82

On Some Philosophical Accounts of Perception

Philosophical accounts of perception in the tradition of Kant and Reid have generally supposed that an event of making a judgment is a key element in every perceptual experience. An alternative very austere view regards perception as an event containing nothing judgmental, nor anything conceptual. This account of perception as nonconceptual is discussed first historically as found in the philosophies of Locke and (briefly) Berkeley, and then examined in the contemporary work of Chisholm and Alston.