Siegel, Susanna. Do Visual Experiences have contents?
2010, in Nanay, Bence (eds.) Perceiving the World, Oxford University Press
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Abstract: This paper argues that despite the differences between perception and belief, perception involves states that are importantly similar to beliefs: conscious visual experiences. According to the Content View, these experiences have contents in the form of accuracy conditions. The paper develops and defends the Content View, discusses its significance, and argues that contrary to what is often supposed, the Content View is compatible with Naive Realist disjunctivism.Comment : This can be used as background reading for a course on epistemology of perception, insofar as the author presents clearly the Content View and its main implications (a useful overview especially in section 1).Siegel, Susanna. The Contents of Perception2010, Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy-
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Summary: In this article, the author provides a great overview on the topic of perceptual content, by addressing the following main issues: i) what are perceptual experiences? ii) what can constitute the content of our experience? iii) what is the relation between the content and our experience? iv) in virtue of what experiences have content?Comment : Great article to be used as background/overview reading for undergraduate course on the philosophy of perception.Can’t find it?Contribute the texts you think should be here and we’ll add them soon!
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