Individualism, Computation, and Perceptual Content

Anti-Individualism, Content Preservation, and Discursive Justification

Most explorations of the epistemic implications of Semantic AntiIndividualism (SAI) focus on issues of self-knowledge (first-person authority) and/or external-world skepticism. Less explored has been SAI’s implications for the epistemology of reasoning. In this paper I argue that SAI has some nontrivial implications on this score. I bring these out by reflecting on a problem first raised by Bog...

Perceptual content and relations

Bill Fish’s book Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion is a rich, sweeping, and radical development of naı̈ve realism. At the core of his view is the idea that in perception we are acquainted with our environment and that in virtue of being so acquainted our experience has phenomenal character. There are many radical ideas in the book, but perhaps the most radical is the idea that when we hall...

Perceptual organization and neural computation.

Our present understanding of perceptual organization has its roots in the observations and qualitative principles of the Gestalt psychologists. Gestaltists and their associates identified and classified phenomena that reflect how perceptual systems derive representations of the environment based on fragmentary information and stimulus context. A broad range of phenomena was explored in this ear...

Perceptual Content and Local Supervenience

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...