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Article: The Philosophical Review: July 2009, Vol. 118, No. 3.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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Perceptual Objectivity, TYLER BURGE
A central preoccupation of philosophy in the twentieth century was to determine constitutive conditions under which accurate (objective) empirical representation of the macrophysical environment was possible. A view that dominated attitudes on this project maintained that an individual cannot empirically represent a physical subject matter as having specific physical characteristics unless the individual can represent some constitutive conditions under which such representation is possible. The version of this view that dominated the century's second half maintained that objective empirical representation of the physical ...