Misperceiving properties

Abstract

Recently, a number of philosophers have argued that property illusions-cases in which we perceive a property, but that property is not the property it seems to us to be in virtue of our perceptual experience-and veridical illusions-cases in which we veridically perceive an object's properties, but our experience of some specific property is nonetheless unsuccessful or illusory-can occur. I defend the contrary view. First, I maintain that there are compelling reasons to conclude that property illusions and veridical illusions can't occur; and second, I maintain that the considerations supporting the possibility of such cases are uncompelling.