Must naive realists be relationalists?

Abstract

Relationalism maintains that perceptual experience involves, as part of its nature, a distinctive kind of conscious perceptual relation between a subject of experience and an object of experience. Together with the claim that perceptual experience is presentational, relationalism is widely believed to be a core aspect of the naive realist outlook on perception. This is a mistake. I argue that naive realism about perception can be upheld without a commitment to relationalism.

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European Journal of Philosophy
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Maarten Steenhagen
Research Fellow in Philosophy

My research interests include philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, philosophical logic and aesthetics

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