Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: What is the distinctively philosophical problem of perception?Here it is argued that it is the conflict between the nature of perceptual experience as it intuitively seems to us, and certain possibilities which are implicit in the very idea of experience: possibilities of illusion and hallucination.Perceptual experience seems to us to be a relation to its objects, a kind of 'openness to the world' which involves direct awareness of existing objects and their properties.But if one can have an experience of the same kind without the object being there -a hallucination of an object -then it seems that perceptual experience cannot essentially be such a relation.This is the fundamentally philosophical problem of perception; the various philosophical theories of perception in the 20 th and 21 st centuries can be seen as responses to it.238 SYNTHESIS PHILOSOPHICA T. Crane, What is the Problem of Per-40 (2/2005) pp.(237-264) ception?
Author: Tim Crane
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W383491966