Saturday, April 10, 2010

What counts as seeing?

hey all.

in light of what the majority of this semester has been spent on - visual perception - i wanted to offer up the very fundamental question of what we should count as seeing.

you may consider the tye-nanay-dretske debate over the speckled hen as a springboard into this problem; what counts as seeing, such that we should consider our beliefs about the speckled hen justified?

for example, tye uses the problem of the speckled hen to present his overall theory of seeing: we count as seeing something iff we can ask about it: "what is that?"

should we agree with tye?