ABSTRACT
We have followed the problem of perception through the arguments for sense-data and how they have been resisted, and through the Wittgensteinian attack on the empiricist conception of experience. If one is impressed by these attacks on traditional empiricism then one will be left with a choice between some form of direct realism, or some other theory that avoids the Cartesian theatre of experience. How modern direct realist theories fare will be the subject for Chapters VI and VII, but the paradigmatically contemporary flight from sense-data takes the form of physicalist theories of perception.
