Oxford University Press (2011)
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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 | Perception (Philosophy |
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Reprint years | 2007, 2011, 2013 |
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Call number | B828.45.B74 2011 |
ISBN(s) | 0199674698 9780199260256 9780199674695 0199260257 |
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