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(1999) Consciousness and intentionality, Dordrecht, Springer.
Is there a difference between visual experience and visual judgement? According to Daniel C. Dennett there is not: visual experience has no content over and above the content of the visual judgements we are disposed to make. As he puts it in his book Consciousness Explained: "There is no such phenomenon as really seeming — over and above the phenomenon of judging in one way or another that something is the case" (1991, p. 364). I think that this is wrong: there is a difference between presentational content and judgemental content in visual perception, between 'seeing as' and "visually judging that." To get at the difference I will focus on the phenomena collectively known as visual filling-in.1
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9193-5_7
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Thompson, E. (1999)., Filling-in: visual science and the philosophy of perception, in D. Fisette (ed.), Consciousness and intentionality, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 145-161.
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