Implications of Intensional Perceptual Ascriptions for Relationalism, Disjunctivism, and Representationalism About Perceptual Experience

Representationalism and indeterminate perceptual content

JOHN DILWORTH Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008, USA. (E-mail: [email protected]) [Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 6 (2007), pp. 369-387. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com] Abstract. Representationalists currently cannot explain counter-examples that involve indeterminate perceptual content, but a double conten...

Naïve realism without disjunctivism about experience.

I argue that the possibility of non-perceptual experience need not compel a naïve realist to adopt a disjunctive conception of experience. Instead, they can maintain that the nature of perceptual and hallucinatory experience is the same, while still claiming that perceptual experience is presentational of the objects of perception. On such a view the difference between perceptual and non-percep...

Prenatal Perceptual Experience and Postnatal Perceptual Preferences: Evidence for Attentional-Bias in Perceptual Learning

Perceptual Experience And Its Contents

The contents of perceptual experience, it has been argued, often include a characteristic “non-conceptual” component (Evans, 1982). Rejecting such views, McDowell (1994) claims that such contents are conceptual in every respect. It will be shown that this debate is compromised by the failure of both sides to mark a further, and crucial, distinction in cognitive space. This is the distinction be...

The Nature of Perceptual Experience

"Naive realism" is the common-sense view that the world we see, hear, feel, taste, and smell about us is one and the same as the so-called physical world, existing apart from ourselves. It is called naive realism for it is a view of reality which every one of us naively assumes as we are growing up. It is not so much a matter of "indoctrination" by our educational systems that we are naive real...