NDLI: The phenomenological directness of perceptual experience

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Author	Millar, Boyd
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	When you have a perceptual experience of a given physical object that object seems to be immediately present to you in a way it never does when you consciously think about or imagine it. Many philosophers have claimed that naïve realism (the view that to perceive is to stand in a primitive relation of acquaintance to the world) can provide a satisfying account of this phenomenological directness of perceptual experience while the content view (the view that to perceive is to represent the world to be a certain way) cannot. I argue that this claim is false. Specifically, I maintain that the only acceptable naïve realist account of the relevant phenomenology is circular and that the content view can provide a similar account. In addition, I maintain that a certain specific variety of the content view provides a non-circular and thus more satisfactory account of this phenomenology. If so, then contrary to what is commonly assumed there are powerful phenomenological grounds for preferring the content view to naïve realism.
Starting Page	235
Ending Page	253
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00318116
Journal	Philosophical Studies
Volume Number	170
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15730883
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2013-09-26
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Perception Phenomenology Perceptual content Naive realism Content view Philosophy Epistemology Philosophy of Mind Ethics Metaphysics Philosophy of Language
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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