Perceptual expertise, universality, and objectivity

  • Casey O’Callaghan

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Abstract

Perceptual malleability and diversity can stem from perceptual learning, expertise, genetics, disease, or accident. Perceptual malleability and diversity force us to reject the claim that perceptual capacities, perceptual experience, and perceptual content are universal across subjects and times. And it casts doubt on the presumption of a universal human perceptual nature. However, it does not directly challenge perceptual objectivity, understood as the claim that one can perceive a world of things and features that are independent from oneself and one?s experiences and that could be perceived by other subjects.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1757-1763
Number of pages7
JournalPhilosophical Studies
Volume181
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2024

Keywords

  • Objectivity
  • Observation
  • Perceptual diversity
  • Perceptual expertise
  • Perceptual learning

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