ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about what the internal physical state view is. It looks at a possible argument for the internal physical state view based on a particularly strong version of “internal dependence”. The chapter considers problems for it concerning whether it can accommodate the essentially externally directed character of some experiences. The transparency observation is one of the most discussed ideas in recent philosophy of perception. Different philosophers formulate it differently. The internal physical state view is the polar opposite of “naive realism”. The internal physical state view also differs from sense datum view. David Papineau is a proponent of the internal physical state view who does exactly that: he rejects essential external directedness (personal discussion). In this way, he avoids the problems raised in the previous sections for the internal physical state view based on external directedness.
