scholarly journals Naive realism, representationalism, and the rationalizing role of visual perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-119
Author(s):  
Craig French
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Naive Realism ◽  
Naïve Realism

Philosophy, Perception, and Neuroscience

Perception ◽  
10.1068/p6025 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 638-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Smythies
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Visual Perception ◽  
Cholinergic System ◽  
Phenomenal Consciousness ◽  
Naive Realism ◽  
Naïve Realism

This paper presents the results of some recent experiments in neuroscience and perceptual science that reveal the role of virtual reality in normal visual perception, and the use of television technology by the visual brain. This involves particularly the cholinergic system in the forebrain. This research throws new light on the nature of perception and the relation of phenomenal consciousness and its brain. It is directly relevant to criticisms by certain analytical philosophers of aspects of neuroscience relating to these matters. Particular attention is paid to their support for Naive Realism.

The Representational View of Experience

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berit Brogaard
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Visual Experience ◽  
Naive Realism ◽  
Naïve Realism ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Central Claim ◽  
Content View

In chapter 3, the author presents two arguments for the view that visual experience is representational. The first shows that phenomenal ‘look’ and ‘seem’ reflect phenomenal, representational properties of visual perception. It follows that experience is representational. This conclusion is consistent with some versions of naive realism, but considerably stronger than the minimal content view that takes content to be a description of what it is like for the subject to have the experience. The second argument establishes that the perceptual relation that obtains between experience and its object in core cases cannot fully explain the phenomenology of experience. In order to explain its phenomenology, we will need to appeal to the experience’s representational nature. The second argument thus shows that visual experience is fundamentally representational and not fundamentally relational, which is the central claim of the representational view.

Hegel on the Idealism of Practical Life

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
David V. Ciavatta
Keyword(s):  
Naive Realism ◽  
Individual Agent ◽  
Property Ownership ◽  
Naïve Realism ◽  
The World ◽  
Practical Life

AbstractThis paper investigates Hegel’s thesis that we are, in our practical relation to the world, inherently committed to certain aspects of idealistic metaphysics. For Hegel, our practical attitude is fundamentally at odds with a naïve realism that would take the world to consist ultimately of self-contained, self-sufficient individuals whose relations to one another are fundamentally external to their identities. Hegel contends that our practical attitude is premised upon an overcoming of this mutual externality, and especially the externality which is supposed to hold between individual agent and world. It is shown that his argument hinges on conceiving of external things as inadequately individuated, as compared to living agents, and that it is precisely this ontological deficiency that conditions and motivates our action. Hegel’s discussions of morality and property ownership are appealed to in order to illustrate how we might better understand the nature and practical role of this purported deficiency.

scholarly journals Naive realism in the unmarried cohabitation controversy in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-55
Author(s):  
Andrea A. McCracken ◽  
Matthew S. McGlone
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Naive Realism ◽  
Naïve Realism ◽  
Attitudinal Differences ◽  
Egocentric Bias ◽  
Unmarried Cohabitation

We explored the role of “naïve realism” in perceptions of attitudinal differences between proponents and opponents of unmarried cohabitation (UC) in the United States. Participants were presented with UC vignettes, asked to describe their own impressions of the couple in each scenario, and then to speculate about the impressions of the typical UC proponent and opponent. A comparison of these impressions yielded a pattern of false polarization in their perceptions, such that partisans’ self-reported sympathy was reliably more similar than the degree of sympathy either side attributed to the other. Partisans also exhibited egocentric bias regarding the basis for each side’s stances on UC. The relevance of this misperception and faulty assumptions toward the resolution of the debate over unmarried cohabitation is discussed.

Naive realism in terrain appreciation

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey S. Smallman ◽  
Maia B. Cook ◽  
Daniel I. Manes ◽  
Michael B. Cowen
Keyword(s):  
Naive Realism ◽  
Naïve Realism

The Psychologist-Educator Views the Relationship of Vision to Reading and Related Learning Disabilities

1981 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 565-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jules C. Abrams
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Visual Field ◽  
Visual Perception ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Visual Defects ◽  
Considerable Controversy ◽  
Visual Problems ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The role of visual problems in learning disability has been a source of considerable controversy for many years. One major issue in the continuing argument is the frequent confusion of labels and concepts in the visual field. It is important to view vision as a psychophysiologic mechanism and to differentiate it from a mechanistic orientation emphasizing the eyes. Most visual problems related to learning disability represent a breakdown in the ability of the eyes to function in an harmonious fashion, that is, some interference in binocular function. While visual defects should not be confused with defects in visual perception, the identification and treatment of visual problems is an important element in the diagnosis and remediation of learning disabilities.

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