This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of
perceptual experience. With special emphasis on vision Searle
explains how the raw phenomenology of perception sets the content
and the conditions of satisfaction of experience. The central
question concerns the relation between the subjective conscious
perceptual field and the objective perceptual field. Everything in
the objective field is either perceived or can be perceived.
Nothing in the subjective field is perceived nor can be perceived
precisely because the events in the subjective field consist of the
perceivings, whether veridical or not, of the events in the
objective field.
Searle begins by criticizing the classical theories of perception
and identifies a single fallacy, what he calls the Bad Argument, as
the source of nearly all of the confusions in the history of the
philosophy of perception. He next justifies the claim that
perceptual experiences have presentational intentionality and shows
how this justifies the direct realism of his account. In the
central theoretical chapters, he shows how it is possible that the
raw phenomenology must necessarily determine certain form of
intentionality. Searle introduces, in detail, the distinction
between different levels of perception from the basic level to the
higher levels and shows the internal relation between the features
of the experience and the states of affairs presented by the
experience. The account applies not just to language possessing
human beings but to infants and conscious animals. He also
discusses how the account relates to certain traditional puzzles
about spectrum inversion, color and size constancy and the
brain-in-the-vat thought experiments. In the final chapters he
explains and refutes Disjunctivist theories of perception, explains
the role of unconscious perception, and concludes by discussing
traditional problems of perception such as skepticism.
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