Perception and the external world

• Autores: Declan Smithies
• Localización: Philosophical Studies, ISSN-e 1573-0883, Vol. 173, Nº. 4, 2016, págs. 1119-1145
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this paper, I argue that perception justifies belief about the external world in virtue of its phenomenal character together with its relations to the external world. But I argue that perceptual relations to the external world impact on the justifying role of perception only by virtue of their impact on its representational content. Epistemic level-bridging principles provide a principled rationale for avoiding more radically externalist theories of perceptual justification.