There are 3 thesis about perception
Phenomenal Principle: S perceives a –> a exists
Common Kind assumptions: all perceptions are of the same kind, whether they be hallucinations, veridical perceptions etc. They are all fundementally the same.
Mind Independence- We are directly aware of mind-independent physical objects.
Phenomenal Principle Common Kind Mind-Independence
Sense Datum Y Y N
Intentionalism N Y Y
Disjunctivism [...]
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Just some quick notes…
Intentionalism rejects the phenomenal principle
Perceptions have cognititve intentional (representational) content- they represent the world as being in a certain way (veridical, not illusory)
We can perceive more things than we have content of (too much data for us to comprehend)
We can have the same intentional content, but different phenomenal character (ie. 2 colours, [...]
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Posted in Knowledge and Perception, tagged criteria, defeasibility, Disjunction, Disjunctivism, empiricism, experience, experiental, finding knowledge, knowledge, McDowell on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
READING NOTES
‘On any question about the world independent of oneself to which one can ascertain the answer by say, looking, the way things look can be deceptive: it can look to one exactly as if things were a certain way when they are not…It follows that any capacity to tell by looking how things are [...]
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The argument from illusion is an argument for the existence of sense-data.
When we observe a straight stick half submerged in water, it appears bent. This is an illusion. Seems the stick is not in fact bent, the bent stick that we are seeing is an illusion. It is examples like this that have lead some [...]
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