Comment on Susanna Siegel, The Rationality of Perception
dc.contributor.author | Railton, Peter | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-02T14:38:04Z | |
dc.date.available | WITHHELD_12_MONTHS | |
dc.date.available | 2020-12-02T14:38:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-11 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Railton, Peter (2020). "Comment on Susanna Siegel, The Rationality of Perception." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 101(3): 735-754. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0031-8205 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1933-1592 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/163584 | |
dc.description.abstract | In Susanna Siegel’s compelling presentation of the case for the rationality of perception, a “significant part of the constructive defense” is played by the idea that there are “inferential routes to perceptual experience” (Siegel 2017, p. 94). Inferences, after all, are epistemically evaluable and bear on the rational standing of their conclusions. She argues that an obstacle to accepting this idea is a “Reckoning Model” of inference, and shows by example that we recognize as inferences various familiar kinds of responses to information that do not fit this model. She offers a more general approach to the nature of inference that fits these examples and accommodates inferential routes to perceptual experience. I argue that Siegel needs to say more about the mental processes involved in such inferrings, and how it can be more than merely associative and yet still distinct from Reckoning. Fortunately, a psychologically‐ and conceptually‐grounded distinction between model‐free vs. model‐based learning and guidance processes can provide a characterization that plays the role Siegel needs. | |
dc.publisher | W.W. Norton | |
dc.publisher | Wiley Periodicals, Inc. | |
dc.title | Comment on Susanna Siegel, The Rationality of Perception | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Philosophy | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Humanities | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/163584/2/phpr12735.pdf | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/163584/1/phpr12735_am.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/phpr.12735 | |
dc.identifier.source | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research | |
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