What the Senses Cannot ‘Say’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10688592 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Brink Morgan (0000-0001-9213-1523, Montclair State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 557-579 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-21 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqac026 |
| OpenAlex | W4284885533 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 35 |
Some have claimed that there are laws of appearance, i.e. in principle constraints on which types of sensory experiences are possible. Within a representationalist framework, these laws amount to restrictions on what a given experience can represent. I offer an in-depth defence of one such law and explain why prevalent externalist varieties of representationalism have trouble accommodating it. In light of this, I propose a variety of representationalism on which the spatial content of experience is determined by intrinsic features of conscious subjects. I conclude by considering an externalist-friendly reworking of my proposal, but suggest that the success of such a reworking is dubious
Aesthetics · Direct and indirect realism · Epistemology · Externalism · Internalism and externalism · Perception · Variety (cybernetics) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Neural dynamics and brain function · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Knowledge and the flow of information
Naturalizing The Mind
Consciousness, Color, and Content
The Origin of Concepts
The Obscure Object of Hallucination
Ten Problems of Consciousness
Quality and Concept
Intentionalism and Perceptual Presence
The Perceptual Representation of Objects and Natural Kinds
Beyond Resemblance
The Unreliability of Naive Introspection
The Subjective View
Universals as Sense-data
Seeing‐As in the Light of Vision Science
Reply to Rescorla and Peacocke
Compassionate Phenomenal Conservatism
Reply to Critics
Reply to Block
Pictures, Pictorial Contents and Vision
Is Perception a Propositional Attitude
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |