On Visual Experience of Objects: Comments on John Campbell’s Reference and Consciousness.

John Campbell argues that visual attention to objects is the means by which we can refer to objects, and that this is so because conscious visual attention enables us to retrieve information about a location. It is argued here that while Campbell is right to think that we visually attend to objects,...

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Published in:Philosophical Studies Vol. 127; no. 2; pp. 195 - 221
Main Author: Matthen, Mohan
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Published: Springer Nature Jan2006
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