Perceptual Experience, Conscious Content, and Non-Conceptual Content

Sellars' famous attack on the Myth of the Given, the idea that raw experience gives us knowledge without concepts. One of the most influential essays of twentieth-century philosophy.

Wilfrid Sellars

A full doctoral thesis on what perceptual experience is and how it gives us contact with the world. Deep, rigorous reading for philosophy of perception.

Sebastián Ignacio Sanhueza Rodríguez

Can seeing something give you knowledge of it all by itself? This paper explores how perceptual experience justifies what we believe about the world.

Johannes Roessler

Does experience only tell us what to believe, or also how strongly? This paper tests the idea that perception directly sets our degrees of confidence.

Thomas Raleigh and Filippo Vindrola

Explains how introspection gives us concepts of our own conscious experiences, using an information-theoretic model. A detailed study on the link between experience and thought.

Murat Aydede and Güven Güzeldere