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Brewer, B. (2011). Perception and its objects. Oxford University Press. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (20/08/2025, 04:43) |
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| Resource type: Book Published DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199260256.001.0001 ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9780199260256 BibTeX citation key: anon2011a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
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This book presents, motivates, and defends a new solution to a fundamental problem in the philosophy of perception. What is the correct theoretical conception of perceptual experience, and how should we best understand the nature of our basic perceptual relation with the physical objects in the world around us? Most theorists today analyze perception in terms of its representational content, in large part in order to avoid fatal problems attending the early modern conception of perception as a relation with particular mind-dependent direct objects of experience. Having set up the underlying problem and explored the lessons to be learnt from the various difficulties faced by opposing early modern responses to it, it is argued that this contemporary approach has serious problems of its own. Furthermore, the early modern insight that perception is most fundamentally to be construed as a relation of conscious acquaintance with certain direct objects of experience is perfectly consistent with the commonsense identification of such direct objects with persisting mind-independent physical objects themselves. The resultant picture of perception as acquaintance from a given point of view and in certain specific circumstances with particular mind-independent physical objects offers a rich and nuanced account of the various ways such things look in perception that also accommodates illusion and hallucination. This solution is proposed and elaborated as the most satisfactory and defensible vindication of empirical realism.
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Summarised here (Brewer )? Brewer, B. Perception and its objects.
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