ABSTRACT
Over the course of this book, we will be thinking philosophically about our capacity for sense perception-our capacity to perceive the world by means of our sense organs.1
If one is of a scientific bent, one might wonder just what the role of philosophical theorizing about perception is: isn’t empirical science in the process of discovering what the nature of a visual experience is and what is going on when we perceive? The relationship between the philosophy of perception and the associated sciences of the mind will be discussed in more detail in Chapter 8 but, for now, let us simply note that philosophical thinking about perception has a remit that is somewhat broader than that of the sciences.
