ABSTRACT
In this chapter I examine Merleau-Ponty’s concept of a physical object. He is interested in the question of how it is possible for there to be physical objects for us, or, to put it another way, how it is possible for us to be perceptually presented with physical objects. Merleau-Ponty conceives of this question as part of the wider question, ‘How can there be objectivity?’ (PPT, 300).1
