Direct versus indirect realism : a neurophilosophical debate on consciousness

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Contributors = xi
• Acknowledgments = xiii
• 1. Introduction / John Smythies ; Robert French = 1
• Part One : Papers Defending Indirect Realism = 3
• 2. The Metaphysical Foundations of Contemporary Neuroscience : A House Built on Sand / John Smythies = 5
• 1. Introduction = 5
• 2. The cosmological theory = 5
• 3. Two competing theories of perception = 8
• 4. The identity theory and the status of phenomenal space = 10
• Acknowledgments = 12
• References = 12
• 3. A Defense of Representational Realism / Robert French = 15
• 1. Perceptual regress arguments = 17
• 2. Is perception direct or indirect? = 23
• 3. Do we see "pictures" of objects or the objects themselves? = 24
• 4. The theory-ladenness of ordinary perceptual language = 27
• References = 31
• 4. Is Direct Realism Falsifiable? / Ernest W. Kent = 33
• 1. Introduction = 33
• 2. Preliminary remarks = 34
• 3. Direct and indirect realism = 37
• 4. The argument from time delay : a thought experiment = 39
• 5. Hallucination and necessity = 44
• 6. Direct realism has no clothes = 49
• 7. Summary = 54
• Appendix A - A variation on the mach strip experiment = 56
• References = 58
• 5. Against the Combination of Materialism and Direct Realism / David McGraw = 61
• Further reading = 72
• 6. The Epistemology of Visual Experience / Steven Lehar = 73
• 1. The epistemological divide = 73
• 2. A history of the epistemic debate = 75
• 3. The world in your head = 79
• 4. The geometry of visual space = 81
• 5. Analogical representation and information theory = 85
• 6. Conclusion = 89
• References = 91
• Part Two : Papers Defending Direct Realism = 93
• 7. The Virtues of Direct Realism / Michael Huemer = 95
• 1. Direct and indirect realism = 95
• 2. A version of direct realism = 97
• 3. The basing problem = 101
• 4. The symmetry argument = 106
• 5. Conclusion = 110
• References = 111
• 8. Direct Realism, Disjunctivism, and Screening Off / William Fish = 113
• 1. Part Ⅰ : The direct／indirect distinction = 113
• 2. Part Ⅱ : Disjunctivism and direct realism = 122
• References = 128
• 9. Perceptual Realism's Fundamental Forms / Pierre Le Morvan = 129
• 1. Introduction = 129
• 2. Direct realism distinguished from naive realism = 129
• 3. Direct realism, idealism, and phenomenalism = 130
• 4. Fundamental forms of direct realism = 131
• 5. Does anyone subscribe to global or local naive realism? = 134
• 6. Conclusion = 137
• Appendix A = 137
• Appendix B = 138
• References = 138
• 10. A Dilemma for Epistemological Disjunctivism / Eva Schmidt = 141
• 1. Introduction = 141
• 2. The dilemma for epistemological disjunctivism = 145
• 3. An escape route? = 155
• 4. Upshot = 160
• Acknowledgments = 160
• References = 161
• 11. Seeing Things : Defending Direct Perception / Fred Adams ; Gary Fuller ; Murray Clarke = 163
• 1. Introduction = 163
• 2. Direct perception = 163
• 3. Perceiving distal objects across causal chains = 165
• 4. The regress problem = 167
• 5. Robert French's reasons for the rejection of direct perception = 168
• 6. Robert French's own solution to the regress problem = 173
• 7. Conclusion = 176
• References = 177
• Part Three : The Debate = 179
• 12. Critiques of Papers by Indirect Realists by Direct Realists / Robert French = 181
• Eva Schmidt's comments on Robert French, "a defense of representational realism" = 181
• Eva Schmidt's comments on John Smythies "The metaphysical foundations of contemporary neuroscience : a house builton sand" = 185
• Eva Schmidt's comments on David McGraw, "Against the combination of materialism and direct realism" = 190
• Pierre le Morvan's comments on Bob French's "A defense of representational realism" = 192
• Michael Huemer's comments on Steven Lehar: The "Irrefutable" evidence for indirect realism = 194
• References = 200
• 13. Critiques of Papers by Direct Realists by Indirect Realists / Robert French = 201
• Robert French's comments on Michael Huemer = 201
• Robert French's comments on William Fish = 203
• Robert French's comments on Eva Schmidt = 206
• Robert French's comments on Pierre Le Morvan = 207
• Robert French's comments on Fred Adams = 208
• David Mcgraw's comments on Eva Schmidt, "Dilemma for epistemological disjunctivism" = 211
• Ernest W. Kent's comments on Michael Huemer : comment on "The virtues of direct realism" by Michael Huemer = 214
• Ernest W. Kent's comments on Fred Adams = 224
• Steven Lehar's comments on Michael Huemer's the virtues of direct realism = 232
• References = 239
• 14. Rebuttals by Indirect Realists / Robert French = 241
• John Smythies reply to Eva Schmidt = 241
• David Mcgraw's reply to Eva Schmidt = 242
• Robert French's reply to Critics = 244
• Steven Lehar reply to Critics = 246
• References = 254
• 15. Rebuttals by Direct Realists / Robert French = 255
• Pierre Le Morvan's response to Robert French's comments = 255
• Eva Schmidt's responses to David Mcgraw and Robert French = 255
• Michael Huemer's responses to David Mcgraw, Ernest W. Kent, Steven Lehar, and Robert French = 259
• Fred Adams, Gary Fuller, & Murray Clarke reply to Robert French and Ernest W. Kent = 267
• References = 272
• 16. Postscript / Robert French ; John Smythies = 273
• Index = 275