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The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
Theories of Perception and Recent Empirical Work
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>In this dissertation I answer the following question: Does recent empirical work give us reason to think that naive realism is false or that indirect realism is correct? There is a small amount of literature arguing that recent empirical findings pose problems for naive realism and suggest that perception involves mental representation. I review this literature and the arguments therein, examine the relevant empirical work, and argue that recent empirical work on perception does give us reason to reject naive realism and to favour an indirect realist view that countenances mental representations.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Doctoral
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Philosophy
- Grantor
- The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
- Year dc:date.available
- 2018
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Zigman, Philip
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- David Rosenthal
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- David Papineau
- Howard Robinson
- Jesse Prinz
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2772
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-3837