The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

Nonconceptual Content, Causal Theory, and Realism

The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication October 18, 2016 Błażej Skrzypulec

In this paper the connections between the nonconceptual content of perceptual states and realism are considered. In particular, I investigate the argument for realism that uses the notion of nonconceptual content, specifically the version proposed by Raftopoulos in Cognition and Perception. To evaluate the argument two forms of realism are identified: (1) correlation realism (CR), according to...