Preparatory Readings
1. From objects of Perception to Content:
GE Moore, 'A Defence of Common Sense', sec IV, in his Philosophical Papers, (George Allen, 1959)
J.L. Austin, Sense & Sensibilia, Ch. II, (OUP, 1963)
Thompson Clarke, ‘Seeing Surfaces and Physical Objects’, in Max Black, ed., Philosophy in America, (George Allen, 1966)
Frank Jackson, Perception: A Representative Theory, (CUP, 1977), Ch. 1
2. Arguments from Illusion:
M. Burnyeat, ‘Conflicting Appearances’, in Proceedings of the British Academy, 1979
S. Siegel, ‘Do Experiences have Contents?’, in Perceiving the World, ed Nanay, OUP 2010
Mark Johnston, ‘The Obscure Object of Hallucination’, Philosophical Studies, July 2006
3. How Might Sense Experience Relate us to the World?:
GE Moore, ‘Some Judgments of Perception’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1918
Gareth Evans, ‘Understanding Demonstratives’ in Collected Papers, OUP 1985
R.M. Sainsbury, ‘Austerity and Openness’, and McDowell’s reply in McDowell & His Critics, ed MacDonald and MacDonald, Blackwell
4. What is a ‘disjunctivist’ approach to the nature of sense experience:
P.F. Snowdon, ‘Perception, Vision & Causation’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1980-1
John McDowell, ‘Criteria, Defeasibility & Knowledge’, in Proceedings of the British Academy, 1982 and reprinted in his collected papers
Tyler Burge, ‘Disjunctivism and Perceptual Psychology’, in Philosophical Top
Works by Mike Martin to be read in advance:
‘Perception’, in A Handbook to Contemporary Philosophy, edd. Smith and Jackson, OUP 2006
‘The Transparency of Experience’, Mind & Language, 2002
‘The Limits of Self-Awareness’, Philosophical Studies, 2004