Organon F
Volume 27, February 2020, Issue 1, Pages 2–28
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article
The Ontological Importance of Being a Perceptual Attitude
Sebastián Sanhueza Rodríguez
https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27101
Current philosophical debates about perception have largely ignored questions concerning the ontological structure of perceptual experience, so as to focus on its intentional and phenomenological character. To illustrate and put pressure on this tendency, I revisit the controversy between doxastic views of perception and Gareth Evans’s objection from over-intellectualization. I suggest that classic versions of the doxastic view are to a good extent driven by an ontological characterization of perceptual attitudes as nonfactive states or dispositions, not by a cognitively complex picture of perceptual content. Conceived along these lines, the doxastic view unveils an ontologically significant story of perceptual experience for at least two reasons: on the one hand, that characterization avoids the line of reasoning leading up to sense-datum theories of perception; and, on the other, it bears on recent discussions about the temporal structure of perceptual experience. Although I do not endorse the doxastic view, my goal is to highlight the importance of the relatively neglected ontological motivations thus driving that kind of account.
Nonfactivity; perceptual attitudes; processes; relationalism; representationalism; states.
Author
Sebastián Sanhueza Rodríguez
Affiliation
Catholic University of Maule
Address
Faculty of Religious and Philosophical Studies and The Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neurosciences Research Center, Catholic University of Maule, Avenida San Miguel 3605, Talca, Maule Region, Chile
Received
30 October 2018
Accepted
17 April 2019
Published online
2 June 2019
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Sanhueza Rodríguez, S. (2020). The Ontological Importance of Being a Perceptual Attitude. Organon F, 27(1), 2–28. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27101
Chicago
Sanhueza Rodríguez, Sebastián. 2020. "The Ontological Importance of Being a Perceptual Attitude." Organon F 27 (1): 2–28. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27101
Harvard
Sanhueza Rodríguez, S. (2020). The Ontological Importance of Being a Perceptual Attitude. Organon F, 27(1), pp. 2–28. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27101
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