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Gilbert Harman
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Gilbert Harman was an American philosopher, who taught at Princeton University from 1963 until his retirement in 2017. He published widely in philosophy of language, cognitive science, philosophy of m
Harman as a student in 1960
Harman as a student in 1960
Transparency of experience
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The transparency of experience is the idea in the philosophy of mind that perception and other conscious experiences are phenomenally transparent. This means that experiences like perception present t
Gilbert Harman
…to them in experience, as opposed to properties of experience that represent what we experience as a kind of mental paint. This idea is called the transparency of experience. He also proposed that perceptual and other psychological states are self-reflective so that the content of a perceptual experience might be: this very…
The transparency of experience says that perception presents blueness as a feature of the sky, not a feature of our experience of the sky.
The transparency of experience says that perception presents blueness as a feature of the sky, not a feature of our experience of the sky.
An illustration of the inverted spectrum thought experiment
An illustration of the inverted spectrum thought experiment
G. E. Moore argued that experience only seems transparent, but that it "can be distinguished if we look attentively enough"
G. E. Moore argued that experience only seems transparent, but that it "can be distinguished if we look attentively enough"