Representationalism and the Problem of Perception

• Authors: Adriana Schetz

Title variants

PL

Reprezentacjonizm a problem percepcji

EN

Representationalism and the Problem of Perception

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

In various philosophical explanations of perceptual experiences two ideas are usually invoked: the idea of intrinsic quality of experience (perceptual quale) and the idea of representation. I argue that the former may be eliminated and replaced by the latter. While discussing the traditional position known as "the sense-data theory" I emphasize the tension between the environment-dependent content of visual experience and its inner or narrow content. I conclude that one cannot find adequate support for the claim that perceptual qualia exist. One should rather admit that perceptual experiences can be fully accounted for in terms of mental representations of apparent features of external objects.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 107-120

Dates

published

2007-09-01

Contributors

author

Adriana Schetz