Sacchi, Elisabetta (2025) The representational and phenomenal richness of perceptual experience. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 39 (3). pp. 289-314. ISSN 2171-679X
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Abstract
This paper deals with the issue of the admissible content of perceptual experience at the centre of the debate that opposes Conservatives and Liberals —who advocate, respectively, a Sparse and a Rich Content-View— and aims, specifically, to consider how this debate interacts with the Externalism/Internalism debate in philosophy of perception. Indeed, apart from a few exceptions (Siegel, 2006, 2010, 2013; Bayne, 2009; Ashby, 2020a; Raleigh, 2022), this issue has not yet been sufficiently addressed, and the present paper, in the wake of the aforementioned works, aims to focus on this issue in order to assess whether it would be more congenial for a Liberal to adopt content internalism or rather content externalism. In my paper I argue that the best move the Liberal should make is to endorse externalism with regard to the content of perceptual experience and internalism with regard to its phenomenal character. But, as it will turn out, this combination can only be sustained consistently if the Liberal discards the standard interpretation of one of its central claims, the so-called (Ashby, 2020a, p. 689) “phenomenal reflection claim” (PRC) —the claim according to which perceptual properties are reflected in/reverberate in the phenomenology of the experience— and adopts a different interpretation of it. To indicate what alternative interpretation of PRC the liberal should provide is one of the main goals of the paper.
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| Additional Information: | ISSN: 0495-4548 (print) | ||||||
| Keywords: | sparse vs rich view of perceptual experience, content externalism, phenomenal internalism, phenomenal reflection claim, representationalism | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Perception |
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| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email theoria@ehu.es | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2025 12:35 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 06 Jun 2025 12:35 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 25582 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/THEORIA/article/view... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1387/theoria.25523 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Perception |
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| Date: | 2025 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 289-314 | ||||||
| Volume: | 39 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2171-679X | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/25582 |
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