- 著者
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Kenichi Fukui
- 出版者
- The Philosophy of Science Society, Japan
- 雑誌
- 科学哲学 (ISSN:02893428)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.32, no.2, pp.65-80, 1999-11-10 (Released:2009-05-29)
According to J. R. Searle's account of perception developed in his book Intentionality, perception is "causally self-referential, " in the sense that the representative content of a perceptual experience involves reference to that very experience. This claim is untenable, and it derives from a failure to draw a sharp distinction between the representative contents of Intentional states and their conditions of satisfaction. An account of Intentional states can accommodate the alleged self-referentiality of perception without commitment to Searle's treatment of it, and given a proper treatment, it can be shown that the representative contents of perceptual experiences are not self-referential in the properly semantical sense.