Philosophy 2500F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Direct And Indirect Realism
3 Oct 2018
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Friday, february 10, 2017 theory of knowledge chapter 6 and 7 [locke and berkley] chapter 7. Contrasts direct realism with representational realism (locke) and phenomenalism (berkley"s idealism) ), secondary qualities do not exist in the world (colour, smell, taste) they are relative to us chapter 6. Representationalism and phenomenalism are both connected to immediacy. Perception comes out of the notion of immediacy. Representationalism: sense data mediates our inference (e. g. hear sounds (scratching and thumping), infers its from the dog) We hear a sound and infer there is something out there: eye of the mind. The sound you hear is before the eye of the mind. Immediacy not inference from the subject and sense data but from the sense data and the world. No gap from the eye of the mind to sense data. Bonjour"s arguments supporting sense data (representationalism: (1) illusion.
