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Zhiwei Gu

Fudan University
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  • Perception and Its Objects
    Bill Brewer
    Oxford University Press. 2011.
    Early modern empiricists thought that the nature of perceptual experience is given by citing the object presented to the mind in that experience. Hallucination and illusion suggest that this requires untenable mind-dependent objects. Current orthodoxy replaces the appeal to direct objects with the claim that perceptual experience is characterized instead by its representational content. This paper argues that the move to content is problematic, and reclaims the early modern empiricist insight as…Read more
  • The irrelevance of intentionality to perception
    Howard Robinson
    Philosophical Quarterly 24 (October): 300-315. 1974.
  • The intentionality of sensation: A grammatical feature
    G. E. M. Anscombe
    In Ronald Joseph Butler (ed.), Analytic Philosophy, Blackwell. pp. 158-80. 1962.
  • The Problem of Perception
    Alyscia Smith
    Harvard University Press. 2002.
    The Problem of Perception offers two arguments against direct realism--one concerning illusion, and one concerning hallucination--that no current theory of ...
  • Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion
    Bill Fish
    Oxford University Press. 2009.
    In the first monograph in this exciting area since then, William Fish develops a comprehensive disjunctive theory, incorporating detailed accounts of the three ...