Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Perception: AQA Philosophy
- REALISM - What we perceive are physical
objects which exist independently of our minds.
We perceive what is really out there - either
directly or indirectly.
- Direct Realism
- "Common sense view"
- - Naive?
- + Intuitive - makes sense to admit this is how we
perceive the world as this is how we talk about our
perceptions - we can't give an account of experience
without talking about physical objects.
- Argument from Illusion
- RESPONSE
- Argument from hallucination
- RESPONSE
- Argument from Perceptual Variation
- RESPONSE
- Time Lag Argument
- RESPONSE
- INDIRECT REALISM
- We perceive objects which exist mind-independently but only through SENSE-DATA which are caused by and represent physical objects.
- SENSE DATA =
- Arguments in favour of IR:
- IDEALISM - What we perceive
are mental things - ideas of
some kind.