Course description

Topic. We will focus on a variety of topics in the philosophy of perception, including: whether perceptual experiences have content; what sorts of things those contents might be; what sorts of things are represented in perceptual experience; the relation between representational content and phenomenal character; the possibility of spectrum inversion (or spectrum shift) without misrepresentation; the relationship between perceptual representation and attention; whether the content of perception is conceptual or nonconceptual, and what either might mean; and the relationship between perceptual representation and representation in thought and language.

An in-progress syllabus is available here.

Texts. Readings will be made available in PDF form via links from the syllabus.

Assignments. Students taking the course for credit will write a paper.