Visual Confidences and Direct Perceptual Justification


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Article
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What kind of content must visual states have if they are to offer direct (noninferential) justification for our external world beliefs? How must they present that content if the degree of justification they provide is to reflect the nuance of our changing visual experiences? This paper offers an argument for the view that visual states comprise not only a content, but a confidence relation to that content. This confidence relation lets us explain how visual states can offer noninferential perceptual justification of differing degrees for external world beliefs. These confidence relations let visual states justify beliefs in a way that is sensitive to subtle differences in the character of our visual experiences, while still allowing that visual states give us direct access to the external world in virtue of their content.

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5003 Philosophy, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, Eye Disease and Disorders of Vision
Journal Title
Philosophical Topics
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Journal ISSN
0276-2080
2154-154X
Volume Title
44
Publisher
Philosophy Documentation Center
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