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Visual Experiences without Presentational Phenomenology
| Title: | Visual Experiences without Presentational Phenomenology |
| Authors: | Miyazono, Kengo Browse this author |
| Issue Date: | 13-Dec-2021 |
| Publisher: | Michigan Publishing |
| Journal Title: | Ergo : An Open Access Journal of Philosophy |
| Volume: | 8 |
| Start Page: | 551 |
| End Page: | 576 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.3998/ergo.1156 |
| Abstract: | A number of philosophers daim that visual experiences have a peculiar phenomenal character that is "presentational". According to what I call the "Visual Presentationality Thesis", this peculiar phenomenal character, presentational phenomenology, is not merely a contingent feature but is a necessary feature of visual experiences. Necessarily, visual experiences have presentational phenomenology. The main aim of this paper is to argue against the Visual Presentationality Thesis. I refute the Visual Presentationality Thesis by giving some counterexamples to it. In particular, I give counterexamples from derealization, which is a psychopathological condition that is characterized by the subjective impression of unreality or detachment from one's surroundings. Derealization is a condition in which patients have visual experiences without presentational phenomenology. I defend this hypothesis about derealization on the basis of an inference to the best explanation; this hypothesis provides the best explanation of (otherwise puzzling) subjective reports by patients with derealization. |
| Type: | article |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/83918 |
| Appears in Collections: | 文学院・文学研究院 (Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences / Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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