eprintid: 10137499 rev_number: 24 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/13/74/99 datestamp: 2021-12-13 15:39:18 lastmod: 2023-10-29 07:10:04 status_changed: 2021-12-13 15:39:18 type: book_section metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Hyman, J title: Perception, Causation, Disjunction ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B03 divisions: C01 divisions: F16 note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. 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 document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10137499/3/Hyman_H-PCD.pdf