The Problem of Perception

Tim Crane; Craig French

The Problem of Perception

Tim Crane, Craig French

Department of Philosophy

University of Nottingham

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The Problem of Perception is a pervasive and traditional problem about our ordinary conception of perceptual experience. The problem is created by the phenomena of perceptual illusion and hallucination: if these kinds of error are possible, how can perceptual experience be what we ordinarily understand it to be: something that enables direct perception of the world? These possibilities of error challenge the intelligibility of our ordinary conception of perceptual experience; the major theories of experience are responses to this challenge.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Editors	Edward N. Zalta
Publisher	Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University
Edition	Fall 2021
State	Published - 2021

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The Problem of Perception

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