TY  - JOUR
Y1  - 2022/11/19/
TI  - Reflexivity, Realism, and Consciousness
VL  - 98
KW  - Ayers; knowledge; perception; reflexivity; realism; consciousness
A1  - Madden, R
EP  - 515
IS  - 4
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1163/18756735-00000151
ID  - discovery10138461
N1  - This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
JF  - Grazer Philosophische Studien
N2  - The author raises a puzzle about the compatibility of the two features which, according to Ayers, jointly characterize paradigmatic cases of seeing, viz. ?perspicuity? and ?immediacy?. In Section 1, the author explains why Ayers?s explanation of these two features suggests an inconsistent combination of reflexivity and realism about sense experience. Some of Ayers?s comments about our awareness of causation suggest a way of giving up on reflexivity. In Section 2, the author uses a thought-experiment to support the view that realism rather than reflexivity ought to be given up. In Section 3, the author gives a further reason for Ayers to take this option: it furnishes a response to a troublesome challenge concerning the epistemic significance of consciousness, a challenge which Ayers himself anticipates at the end of Chapter 2 of Knowing and Seeing but does not fully resolve.
SN  - 1875-6735
SP  - 503
AV  - public
ER  -