From PhilPapers forum Epistemology:

2010-06-29
Does direct realism make sense?
Reply to Mohan Matthen
Somewhat inclined to puzzlement about what in the earlier posting would clue one in to this. That philosophers haven't been able to figure X out yet seems more like a practical than an epistemic reason. 
(Nor is it especially clear what the relevance to debates about consciousness is thought to be of certain remarks upthread concerning doctrines neuronal.)
(Speculate that I may have wound up on Edwards's blocklist. True?)