Resúmenes
«Perceptual Discrimination and Necessary Laws of Appearance»
Are perceptual appearances governed by metaphysically necessary laws? I argue that they are, and advance four such laws grounded in perceptual discriminatory capacities. The first law states that all appearances are located within a spatiotemporal envelope. The second and third laws govern qualitative homogeneity and phenomenal segregation. The fourth law governs apparent boundaries. Together, these laws illuminate the modal structure of experience across sensory-modalities — including those absent in humans — and offer a principled framework for understanding appearances in non-human perceivers. I conclude by situating the laws proposed here within the recent debate on whether all laws of appearance are contingent.
«The Puzzle of Aspect Selection: Seeing-As and the Subject’s Motivational Structure»
In this talk, I present part of my work in progress for a book on seeing-as. In some instances of aspect perception (e.g., seeing Jastrow figure as a duck or as a rabbit) the same particular may be perceived under multiple aspects. But what does it determine whether it is more likely to experience the particular under one aspect instead of another? I argue that the subject’s internal dynamics of what she cares about plays a role in this. Relying on ideas from Frankfurt and from Iris Murdoch’s diaries, I argue that what we care about partially determines how the subject experiences the world as. I conclude with some remarks on how perceptual experience plays a role in self-discovery.
