Abstract

It is a pleasure to have the opportunity to reply to such a distinguished critic as Richard Fumerton and to clarify both my position and why I am reluctant to accept the alternative account of direct awareness Fumerton offers to us. Here are my replies. First of all, Fumerton says that the problem of representation is the problem of accounting for the security from error of self-presenting states. That is not the problem of representation I was concerned with in my paper, though what I said had some relevance to that problem. What I said is the following