Particularism defended
摘要
Recently, Hill, Sainsbury, and Block have mounted significant objections to the prevailing doctrine within the philosophy of perception—principally advanced by Burge and Schellenberg—that asserts the primacy of singular representation in perceptual content (a position I refer to as particularism). Hill articulates a novel form of generalism in opposition to particularism, Sainsbury advocates for a relativistic account of perceptual content, while Block contends that the longstanding controversy over the fundamental structure of perceptual content is, in principle, irresolvable. The present paper contends that each of these challenges fails; rather, there exist numerous compelling grounds for upholding the thesis that perceptual content is, at its core, singular in nature.