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10.1016/0032-3861(81)90330-x

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Inscrutability and visual objects

Authors: Ben Phillips
Publish Date: 2016/04/11
Volume: 194, Issue: 8, Pages: 2949-2971
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The thesis that the visual system represents objects has garnered empirical support from a variety of sources in recent decades But what kinds of things qualify as “objects” in the relevant sense Are they ordinary threedimensional bodies Are they the facing surfaces of threedimensional bodies I argue that there is no fact of the matter what we have are equally acceptable ways of assigning extensions to the relevant visual states The view I defend bears obvious similarities to Quine’s thesis that linguistic reference is inscrutable Importantly though I argue that even if Quine was wrong about inscrutability as a thesis about language and thought the case for the inscrutability of visual reference remains strongI would like to thank the following people for helpful input on various versions of this paper Ryan DeChant Uriah Kriegel Jesse Prinz Jake QuiltyDunn David Rosenthal and three anonymous referees I would also like to thank Laura Larocca for her help with the figures

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