Why do we need perceptual content?

Abstract

Most representationalists argue that perceptual experience has to be representational because phenomenal looks are, by themselves, representational. Charles Travis (2004) argues that looks cannot represent. I argue that perceptual experience has to be representational due to the way the visual system works.

How to Index Visual Contents

“…Although Travis himself is not completely clear on this point, his more global motivation for critically assessing CV seems to be his allegiance to something like a direct realist or relationalist view of experience. For a discussion of representationalist and relationalist accounts of perception, cf Martin 2002, Burge 2005, Soteriou 2005, 2007, Brewer 2006, Glüer 2009, Genone 2014, Brogaard 2014, Cavedon-Taylor 2015, Nanay 2015, Raleigh 2015, de Sá Pereira 2016, Shahmoradi 2016, Schellenberg 2010, 2018. …”