Disjunctivism by Soteriou Matthew;

Author:Soteriou, Matthew;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 4470573
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2016-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

4.5 Chapter summary

In this chapter we considered ways in which debates about the conscious character of perception are connected with debates about the role played by conscious perception in enabling us to acquire knowledge of, think about, and refer to, the mind-independent entities in our environment that we perceive. In particular, we focused on a line of argument in John Campbell’s work for the following claim: only the naïve realist can provide an adequate account of the role that conscious perception plays in enabling one to think about the mind-independent objects and qualities one perceives, precisely because only the naïve realist provides an adequate account of the phenomenal character of conscious perception

First of all we discussed whether there is any reason to think that the phenomenal character of conscious perception plays a crucial role in explaining our capacity to think about the mind-independent objects and features in our environment that we perceive. Here we considered the suggestion that it is phenomenally conscious sensory experience of colours that provides for our distinctive conceptions of what our colour terms refer to, and we considered what could be said to accommodate this suggestion by those who hold that the phenomenal character of conscious perceptual experiences is to be explained by appeal to the instantiation of qualia. In particular, we discussed a view in which

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