Perception | Philosophy

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Perception is one of the most pervasive and puzzling problems in philosophy generating a great deal of attention and controversy in philosophy of mind psychology and metaphysics. If perceptual illusion and hallucination are possible how can perception be what it intuitively seems to be a direct and immediate access to reality? How can perception be both internally dependent and externally directed? Perception is an outstanding introduction to this fundamental topic covering both the perennial and recent work on the problem. Adam Pautz examines four of the most important theories of perception: the sense datum view; the internal physical state view; the representational view; and naïve reali…