ABSTRACT
Philosophy of perception is in very good shape: it is an increasingly central discipline within philosophy, and it is at the forefront of combining empirical findings with age-old philosophical questions. In the wake of the "linguistic turn" of analytic philosophy, it became fashionable to talk about (some) mental states as propositional attitudes. The general strategy for those who insist that perceptual content is non-propositional is to argue that perceptual content is structured not the way sentences are but the way images are. The problem with the contrast case methodology is that it is difficult to settle disagreements about phenomenology. The clearest case of this is probably the most influential contemporary debate in philosophy of perception, the debate about whether perceptual states are representations. To make the question of sensory individuals even more complicated, it seems that sensory individuals may vary across sense modalities.
