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A Naturalistic, Reflexive Dispositional Approach to Perception
Author(s) -
Dilworth John
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2005.tb01970.x
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , subject matter , representation (politics) , perception , reflexivity , naturalism , citation , psychology , sociology , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , library science , social science , pedagogy , politics , political science , law , curriculum
This paper will investigate the basic question of the nature of perception, as theoretically approached from a purely naturalistic standpoint. An adequate theory must not only have clear application to a world full of pre-existing biological examples of perception of all kinds, from unicellular perception to conscious human perception, but it must also satisfy a series of theoretical or philosophical constraints, as enumerated and discussed in Section 1 below. A perceptual theory invoking reflexive dispositions--that is, dispositions directed toward the very same worldly perceived objects or properties that caused them--will be defended as one legitimate such naturalistic theory.