Debunking interface theory: why Hoffman’s skepticism (really) is self-defeating.
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman and others have recently advanced an evolutionary debunking argument aimed at our perceptual beliefs in ordinary objects, based on the Interface Theory of Perception. In contrast with most recent criticisms of Interface Theory, which have targeted its characterizat...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 201; no. 1; pp. 1 - 30 |
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Springer Nature
Jan2023
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