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Space Perception, Visual Dissonance and the Fate of Standard Representationalism
Author(s) -
Masrour Farid
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
noûs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.574
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1468-0068
pISSN - 0029-4624
DOI - 10.1111/nous.12139
Subject(s) - direct and indirect realism , cognitive dissonance , perception , naturalism , property (philosophy) , space (punctuation) , visual space , cognitive psychology , psychology , visual perception , epistemology , cognitive science , philosophy , social psychology , linguistics
This paper argues that a common form of representationalism has trouble accommodating empirical findings about visual space perception. Vision science tells us that the visual system systematically gives rise to different experiences of the same spatial property. This, combined with a naturalistic account of content, suggests that the same spatial property can have different veridical looks. I use this to argue that a common form of representationalism about spatial experience must be rejected. I conclude by considering alternatives to this view.