2 papers in the library · publishing 2009-2010
May 7, 2010 William Fish
Over the course of this book, we will be thinking philosophically about our capacity for sense perception-our capacity to perceive the world by means of our sense organs.1 If one is of a scientific bent, one might wonder just what the role of philosophical theorizing about perception is: isn’t empirical science in the process of discovering what the nature of a visual experience is and what is...
Oxford University Press eBooks May 14, 2009 William Fish
This chapter develops a naive realist theory of veridical perception. It begins from the thought that the phenomenal character of our visual experiences is simply a matter of the scene before us but finds this to be open to criticism. In light of these criticisms, together with the empirical findings of change/inattentional blindness experiments and considerations concerning the conceptual...