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Representational theory emerges unscathed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

Dennis Lomas
Affiliation:
Philosophy Program, Department of Theory and Policy Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6, Canadadlomas@oise.utoronto.ca

Abstract

Representationalism emerges unscathed from Pessoa et al.'s attack. They fail to undermine a key reason for its influence: it has the theoretical resources to explain many illusory visual experiences such as illusory contours and features. Furthermore, in attempting to undermine representationalism, the authors seem to erect an unduly inflated distinction between neural accounts of perception and personal-level accounts of perception.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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