ASPECT-SWITCHING AND VISUAL PHENOMENAL CHARACTER

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Author: Price, Richard

Source: The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 59, Number 236, July 2009 , pp. 508-518(11)

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Abstract:

John Searle and Susanna Siegel have argued that cases of aspect-switching show that visual experience represents a richer range of properties than colours, shapes, positions and sizes. I respond that cases of aspect-switching can be explained without holding that visual experience represents rich properties. I also argue that even if Searle and Siegel are right, and aspect-switching does require visual experience to represent rich properties, there is reason to think those properties do not include natural-kind properties, such as being a tomato.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2009.610.x

Publication date: 2009-07-01