Everything is clear: All perceptual experiences are transparent

被引:11
作者
Gow, Laura [1 ]
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[1] Univ Liverpool, Dept Philosophy, Mulberry St, Liverpool L69 7ZY, Merseyside, England
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VISION;
D O I
10.1111/ejop.12427
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B [哲学、宗教];
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01 ; 0101 ;
摘要
The idea that perceptual experience is transparent is generally used by naive realists and externalist representationalists to promote an externalist account of the metaphysics of perceptual experience. It is claimed that the phenomenal character of our perceptual experience can be explained solely with reference to the externally located objects and properties which (for the representationalist) we represent, or which (for the naive realist) partly constitute our experience. Internalist qualia theorists deny this and claim that the phenomenal character of our perceptual experience is internally constituted. However, my concern in this paper is not with the metaphysical debate but with transparency as a phenomenological feature of perceptual experience. Qualia theorists have presented a number of examples of perceptual experiences which, they claim, do not even seem to be transparent; these experiences involve objects or properties which seem to be internally realized. I argue, contrary to the qualia theorist's claim, that the phenomenal character of perceptual experience can in fact be characterized solely with reference to externally located objects and properties, and the sense in which some features of our perceptual experiences do not seem external is due to cognitive, not perceptual, phenomenology.
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页码:412 / 425
页数:14
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