Author: Assaf Weksler

I am a teaching fellow at BGU and the Open University of Israel, and a post doc at BGU. This fall I will be a teaching fellow at Tel Aviv University. My PhD (Tel Aviv, 2013) was within the tradition of armchair philosophy of mind, but now I am more inclined to making connections between traditional questions in philosophy of mind and cognitive science.

Retinal images and object files: towards empirically evaluating philosophical accounts of visual perspective

Assaf Weksler, Open University of Israel and Ben Gurion University

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Abstract

According to an influential philosophical view I call “the relational properties view” (RPV), “perspectival” properties, such as the elliptical appearance of a tilted coin, are relational properties of external objects. Philosophers have assessed this view on the basis of phenomenological, epistemological or other purely philosophical considerations. My aim in this paper is Continue reading Retinal images and object files: towards empirically evaluating philosophical accounts of visual perspective