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View article: Reflective Intuitions about the Causal Theory of Perception across Sensory Modalities
Reflective Intuitions about the Causal Theory of Perception across Sensory Modalities Open
Many philosophers believe that there is a causal condition on perception, and that this condition is a conceptual truth about perception. A highly influential argument for this claim is based on intuitive responses to Gricean-style thought…
View article: Folk Core Beliefs about Color
Folk Core Beliefs about Color Open
Johnston famously argued that the colors are, more or less inclusively speaking, dispositions to cause color experiences by arguing that this view best accommodates his five proposed core beliefs about color. Since then, Campbell, Kalderon…
View article: Another look at color primitivism
Another look at color primitivism Open
This article is on a precise kind of color primitivism, ‘ostensivism.’ This is the view that it is in the nature of the colors that they are phenomenal, non-reductive, structural, categorical properties. First, I differentiate ostensivism …
View article: Lay intuitions about epistemic normativity
Lay intuitions about epistemic normativity Open
Recent empirical work on non-philosophers’ intuitions about epistemic normativity reveals patterns that cannot be fully accounted for by direct epistemic consequentialism. On the basis of these results, one might picture participants as “e…
View article: Folk Intuitions about the Causal Theory of Perception
Folk Intuitions about the Causal Theory of Perception Open
It is widely held by philosophers not only that there is a causal condition on perception but also that the causal condition is a conceptual truth about perception. One influential line of argument for this claim is based on intuitive resp…
View article: Interview on Experimental Philosophy with Joshua Knobe
Interview on Experimental Philosophy with Joshua Knobe Open
This conversation piece contains an interview with Joshua Knobe. It provides a useful introduction to what experimental philosophy is and the interdisciplinary collaborations it encourages. Pendaran Roberts and Joshua Knobe collaboratively…
View article: An ecumenical response to color contrast cases
An ecumenical response to color contrast cases Open
Intrapersonal variation due to color contrast effects has been used to argue against the following intuitive propositions about the colors: No object can be more than one determinable or determinate color of the same grade all over at the …