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Roberts, Pendaran, Allen, Keith and Schmidtke, Kelly (2016) Folk intuitions about the causal theory of perception. Ergo, 3 (28). doi:10.3998/ergo.12405314.0003.028 ISSN 2330-4014.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/ergo.12405314.0003.028
Abstract
It is widely held by philosophers not only that there is a causal condition on perception but also that the causal condition is a conceptual truth about perception. One influential line of argument for this claim is based on intuitive responses to a style of thought experiment popularized by Grice. Given the significance of these thought experiments to the literature, it is important to see whether the folk in fact respond to these cases in the way that philosophers assume they should. We test folk intuitions regarding the causal theory of perception by asking our participants to what extent they agree that they would ‘see’ an object in various Gricean scenarios. We find that the intuitions of the folk do not strongly support the causal condition; they at most strongly support a ‘no blocker’ condition. We argue that this is problematic for the claim that the causal condition is a conceptual truth.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Grice, H. P. (H. Paul) -- Influence, Perception (Philosophy) | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Ergo | ||||||
Publisher: | Michigan Publishing | ||||||
ISSN: | 2330-4014 | ||||||
Official Date: | 2016 | ||||||
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Volume: | 3 | ||||||
Number: | 28 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.3998/ergo.12405314.0003.028 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 October 2016 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 May 2017 | ||||||
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