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Truth or Accuracy?
Author(s) -
Zahnoun Farid
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1755-2567
pISSN - 0040-5825
DOI - 10.1111/theo.12275
Subject(s) - perception , epistemology , content (measure theory) , argument (complex analysis) , transition (genetics) , philosophy , psychology , sociology , social psychology , mathematics , mathematical analysis , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
An important conceptual shift can be discerned within contemporary philosophy of perception. Whereas proponents of the idea that perceptual experience is contentful used to relate perceptual content to truth conditions, authors nowadays prefer to think of perception as evaluable for accuracy. This transition from truth to accuracy becomes particularly clear in the influential work of Susanna Siegel. Importantly, Siegel actually provides an extensive argument for this shift. Yet this article argues that this transition from truth to accuracy conditions is ill‐motivated, confused and pernicious for the so‐called Content View, the view that all experience has truth or accuracy evaluable content.