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The Phenomenological Fallacy: The Root of the Internal Theater

In the philosophy of mind, few logical errors have caused as much damage as what U.T. Place famously termed the “Phenomenological Fallacy.” At its simplest, it’s an introspective misread: in describing what it’s like to see, hear, or feel something, … Continue reading

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Michael Tye and the World-Directed Mind

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Intentionalism in Perception

by Gordon Swobe Descartes gave modern philosophy both its clarity and its curse. His clarity lay in putting the conscious subject at center stage: the “I who thinks” as the starting point for knowledge and inquiry. His curse lay in … Continue reading

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Indirect Realism: proper method, bad metaphysics

Science is indirect by method, not by nature. Consciousness presents the world directly; the veil was never before our eyes but in our theories. Continue reading

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The Diaphanousness of Experience

The diaphanousness of experience refers to the fact that when we inspect our experience of the world, we cannot perceive our experience itself. Instead, we only experience the world as it seems to us.   Even if we hold that naive/direct realism is … Continue reading

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