Reply to Laura Gow's critical notice of The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience

David Papineau*

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Abstract

I am grateful to Laura Gow for her generous and illuminating comments. I will focus on her queries, as this will allow me to elaborate on some points that were treated rather quickly in the book. Gow challenges me on three points. (1) Does my central argument against representationalism about perception commit me to an overly abstract view of properties? (2) What does my view imply about the representational contents of beliefs prompted by sensory experiences? (3) Do I do sufficient justice to the way sensory experience seems representational? I shall consider these in turn.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)636-640
Number of pages5
JournalMind and Language
Volume36
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2021

Keywords

  • consciousness
  • intentionality
  • perception
  • qualia
  • representation
  • sensory experience

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