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Space, Time and M olyneux's Question
Author(s) -
Richardson Louise
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
ratio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-9329
pISSN - 0034-0006
DOI - 10.1111/rati.12081
Subject(s) - amodal perception , perception , objectivity (philosophy) , epistemology , contrast (vision) , psychology , modalities , modality (human–computer interaction) , cognitive psychology , space (punctuation) , philosophy , sociology , computer science , linguistics , artificial intelligence , social science
Whatever the answer to M olyneux's question is, it is certainly not obvious that the answer is ‘yes’. In contrast, it seems clear that we should answer affirmatively a temporal variation on M olyneux's question, introduced by G areth E vans. I offer a phenomenological explanation of this asymmetry in our responses to the two questions. This explanation appeals to the modality‐specific spatial structure of perceptual experience and its amodal temporal structure. On this explanation, there are differences in the perception of spatial properties in different modalities, but these differences do not stand in the way of the objectivity of perceptual experience.