Three Puzzles About Spatial Experience
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I will argue for a (qualified) negative answer to all three questions. Illusions of all three sorts are impossible. This leads to conclusions about the content of spatial experience and spatial concepts: I will argue for a sort of spatial functionalism, on which space is picked out as whatever plays a certain functional role, over spatial primitivism, on which we have a more direct and primitive grasp of space. Finally, I suggest that this spatial functionalism leads to an anti-skeptical 0Forthcoming in A. Pautz and D. Stoljar (eds.) Themes from Ned Block, Oxford University Press. This paper combines a number of themes from Ned Block at the level of content and method. At the level of content: leftright reversal meets inverted earth. At the level of method: thought experiments about perceptual illusion and Twin Earth cases serve as a guide to the contents of perception and of thought. I am grateful to Ned for much enjoyable interaction over these and many other issues over the last two decades, and for his ongoing presence as a friend and colleague. I am also grateful to Brad Thompson for his obvious influence on this discussion, and to audiences at Arizona, Bilkent, Birmingham, Bochum, Crete, Hertfordshire, Indiana, Oxford, Pittsburgh, Rice, Singapore, Umea, and Western Australia. The discussion here is an elaboration of a discussion in Chapter 7 (section 5) of Constructing the World.
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