The Object View of Perception

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Object View of Perception

AU - Brewer, Bill

PY - 2017/6/30

Y1 - 2017/6/30

N2 - We perceive a world of mind-independent macroscopic material objects such as stones, tables, trees, and animals. Our experience is the joint upshot of the way these things are and our route through them, along with the various relevant circumstances of perception; and it depends on the normal operation of our perceptual systems. How should we characterise our perceptual experience so as to respect its basis and explain its role in grounding empirical thought and knowledge? I offered an answer to this question in Perception and its objects (Brewer 2011). Here I aim to clarify some of my central arguments and to develop and defend the position further in the light of subsequent critical discussion.

AB - We perceive a world of mind-independent macroscopic material objects such as stones, tables, trees, and animals. Our experience is the joint upshot of the way these things are and our route through them, along with the various relevant circumstances of perception; and it depends on the normal operation of our perceptual systems. How should we characterise our perceptual experience so as to respect its basis and explain its role in grounding empirical thought and knowledge? I offered an answer to this question in Perception and its objects (Brewer 2011). Here I aim to clarify some of my central arguments and to develop and defend the position further in the light of subsequent critical discussion.

U2 - 10.1007/s11245-015-9310-y

DO - 10.1007/s11245-015-9310-y

M3 - Article

SN - 0167-7411

VL - 36

SP - 215

EP - 227

JO - Topoi-An International Review Of Philosophy

JF - Topoi-An International Review Of Philosophy

IS - 2

ER -