eprintid: 10138461
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datestamp: 2021-11-17 16:24:20
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creators_name: Madden, R
title: Reflexivity, Realism, and Consciousness
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divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C01
divisions: F16
keywords: Ayers; knowledge; perception; reflexivity; realism; consciousness
note: 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.
abstract: 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.
date: 2022-11-19
date_type: published
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1163/18756735-00000151
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
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elements_id: 1901158
doi: 10.1163/18756735-00000151
lyricists_name: Madden, Rory
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actors_name: Madden, Rory
actors_id: RMADD49
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Grazer Philosophische Studien
volume: 98
number: 4
pagerange: 503-515
issn: 1875-6735
citation:        Madden, R;      (2022)    Reflexivity, Realism, and Consciousness.                   Grazer Philosophische Studien , 98  (4)   pp. 503-515.    10.1163/18756735-00000151 <https://doi.org/10.1163/18756735-00000151>.       Green open access   
 
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