On Privations and Their Perception |
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Authors: | Casey O’Callaghan |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, Rice University, MS-14, PO Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892, USA |
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Abstract: | Despite its admirable bottom-up methodology, Roy Sorensen's Seeing Dark Things (OUP, 2008) raises difficult theoretical questions concerning the metaphysics and perception of absences. Metaphysical difficulties
include how to individuate, count, locate, and classify absences, and what determines their features. Perceptual difficulties
include how to distinguish experiences of absences and presences, especially when nonveridical, and what subjects contribute
to perceptual experience according to Sorensen's causal theory. In addition to articulating these difficulties, this paper
also presents and explores, on Sorensen's terms, an alternative account of silence. |
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