This talk by Professor David Papineau (Professor of Philosophy at King's College London) was given on 22 April 2021 as part of the Dutch Distinguished Lecture Series in Philosophy and Neuroscience (#DDLS).
Title:
“Perceptual Science and the Philosophy of Perception”
Abstract:
“Naïve realism about perception has been widely criticized by representationalists for being in tension with cognitive science. The same charge, however, can be brought against the critics. Representationalism as defended within the philosophy of perception is itself inconsistent with the findings of perceptual science. The view that conscious sensory properties are one and the same as representational properties cannot account for the causal roles nor for the specific representational contents that science shows experiences to possess.”
25 апр 2021