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- Title
Thinking through illusion.
- Authors
Alford‐Duguid, Dominic
- Abstract
Perception of a property (e.g., a colour, a shape, and a size) can enable thought about the property, while at the same time misleading the subject as to what the property is like. This long‐overlooked claim parallels a more familiar observation concerning perception‐based thought about objects, namely that perception can enable a subject to think about an object while at the same time misleading her as to what the object is like. I defend the overlooked claim, and then use it to generate a challenge for a standard way of thinking about the relationship between visual experience and rational belief formation. Put informally, that view holds that just as we can mislead others by saying something false, illusory experience misleads by misrepresenting how things stand in the world. I argue that we ought to abandon this view in favour of some radical alternative account of the relationship between visual experience and rational belief formation.
- Subjects
ILLUSION (Philosophy); SENSORY perception; RATIONALISM; VECTION; PROPERTY
- Publication
European Journal of Philosophy, 2020, Vol 28, Issue 3, p617
- ISSN
0966-8373
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ejop.12582