Perceptual content

Perceptual Content Defended

Recently, the thesis that experience is fundamentally a matter of representing the world as being a certain way has been questioned by austere relationalists. I defend this thesis by developing a view of perceptual content that avoids their objections. I will argue that on a relational understanding of perceptual content, the fundamental insights of austere relationalism do not compete with per...

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...

Epicurean Perceptual Content

Epicurean epistemology is usually summarised in a controversial thesis according to which all perceptions are true . Although it seems very problematic and counterintuitive, careful investigation of the main sources shows us that Epicurus’ claim for the truth of perceptions is not so hasty but is supported with some serious arguments . in the paper, i examine the thesis according to which “all ...

Perceptual Content and Local Supervenience

Perceptual Content Is Vertically Articulate

ions from the most determinate perceptible color properties, however, do seem to be phenomenologically salient. Not only does one perceive speci0 c shades of red, but those shades, phenomenally, seem to fall into more abstract classes, like the dark reds, the bright reds, the reds, and so on. To the extent that such abstractions from the determinate perceptible shades seem phenomenologically sa...