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Perception, Representation, Realism, and Function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Alison Ann Springle
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Abstract

According to orthodox representationalism, perceptual states have constitutive veridicality or accuracy conditions. In defense of this view, several philosophers—most notably Tyler Burge—employ a realist strategy that turns on the purported explanatory ineliminability of representational posits in perceptual science. I argue that Burge’s version of the realist strategy fails as a defense of orthodox representationalism. However, it may vindicate a different kind of representationalism.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 86 , Issue 5 , December 2019 , pp. 1202 - 1213
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