Review of Philosophy and Psychology Pub Date : 2020-06-02 , DOI: 10.1007/s13164-020-00478-6 Pendaran Roberts , Keith Allen , Kelly Schmidtke
Many philosophers believe that there is a causal condition on perception, and that this condition is a conceptual truth about perception. A highly influential argument for this claim is based on intuitive responses to Gricean-style thought experiments. Do the folk share the intuitions of philosophers? Roberts et al. (2016) presented participants with two kinds of cases: Blocker cases (similar to Grice’s case involving a mirror and a pillar) and Non-Blocker cases (similar to Grice’s case involving a clock and brain stimulation). They found that a substantial minority agreed that seeing occurs in the Non-Blocker cases, and that in the Blocker cases significantly less agreed that seeing occurs. They thus hypothesized that folk intuitions better align with a no blocker condition than with a causal condition. This paper continues this line of enquiry with two new experiments. The paper investigates the generality and robustness of Roberts et al.’s findings by expanding the sense modalities tested from only vision to audition and olfaction as well. The paper also uses Gricean-style thought experiments as a case study for investigating the “reflection defense” against the negative project in experimental philosophy. Our results replicate and extend Roberts et al.’s study and support their hypothesis that folk intuitions better align with a no blocker condition. They also provide an empirical reason to doubt the reflection defense.
中文翻译:
关于感官知觉的因果因果关系理论的反思直觉
许多哲学家认为,知觉存在因果条件,这种条件是关于知觉的概念性事实。此主张的极具影响力的论据是基于对Gricean风格的思想实验的直观回应。民间有没有分享哲学家的直觉?罗伯茨等。(2016年)向参与者介绍了两种情况:阻滞剂案例(类似于涉及镜子和立柱的Grice案例)和非阻滞剂案例(类似于涉及时钟和大脑刺激的Grice案例)。他们发现,只有少数人同意在非阻塞者案件中出现视线,而在阻塞者案件中,则很少有人同意发生视线。因此,他们假设民间直觉与无障碍条件比与因果条件更好地吻合。本文通过两个新的实验继续了这一探索。本文通过将测试的感觉模式从仅视觉扩展到听觉和嗅觉,研究了罗伯茨等人的发现的普遍性和鲁棒性。本文还使用格里斯式的思想实验作为案例研究,以研究针对实验哲学的负面项目的“反思防御”。我们的研究结果重复并扩展了Roberts等人的研究,并支持他们的假设,即民间直觉更好地符合无障碍条件。他们还提供了怀疑反射防御的经验原因。本文还使用格里斯式的思想实验作为案例研究,以研究针对实验哲学的负面项目的“反思防御”。我们的研究结果重复并扩展了Roberts等人的研究,并支持他们的假设,即民间直觉更好地符合无障碍条件。他们还提供了怀疑反射防御的经验原因。本文还使用格里斯式的思想实验作为案例研究,以研究针对实验哲学的负面项目的“反思防御”。我们的研究结果重复并扩展了Roberts等人的研究,并支持他们的假设,即民间直觉更好地符合无障碍条件。他们还提供了怀疑反射防御的经验原因。