eprintid: 10137499
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creators_name: Hyman, J
title: Perception, Causation, Disjunction
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C01
divisions: F16
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abstract: British philosophy of perception conducted a step-by-step retreat from empiricism in the twentieth century, as Lockean indirect realism and phenomenalism gave way to the modern causal theory of perception advanced by Paul Grice and defended by Peter Strawson, and as that theory came under attack by Paul Snowdon, Mike Martin, and others, under the banner of disjunctivism. In this chapter, I focus almost exclusively on Grice, Strawson, and Snowdon. I do not attempt a comprehensive assessment of their views about perception. Instead, I begin with some introductory comments, placing the modern causal theory against its empiricist background, and then examine Strawson’s argument in favour of the theory and Snowdon’s objection to it. I do not contest the objection. On the contrary, I press it further, against the disjunctivism that Snowdon himself defends. The burden of my argument is that the retreat from empiricism has not gone far enough.
date: 2022-10-28
date_type: published
publisher: Routledge
official_url: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003202929-11
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1872956
doi: 10.4324/9781003202929-11
isbn_13: 9781003202929
lyricists_name: Hyman, John
lyricists_id: JHYMA62
actors_name: Dewerpe, Marie
actors_id: MDDEW97
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Abingdon, UK
book_title: Wittgenstein and Beyond
editors_name: Pfisterer, C
editors_name: Rathgeb, N
editors_name: Schmidt, E
citation:        Hyman, J;      (2022)    Perception, Causation, Disjunction.                    In: Pfisterer, C and Rathgeb, N and Schmidt, E, (eds.) Wittgenstein and Beyond.    Routledge: Abingdon, UK.       Green open access   
 
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