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In defense of the armchair: Against empirical arguments in the philosophy of perception

Noûs June 18, 2022 P. Epstein

: A recurring theme dominates recent philosophical debates about the nature of conscious perception: naïve realism’s opponents claim that the view is directly contradicted by empirical science. I argue that, despite their current popularity, empirical arguments against naïve realism are fundamentally flawed. The non-empirical premises needed to get from empirical scientific findings to...