Direct Realism

'...a vigorous and challenging defence of direct realism in which one gets not only a clear overview of what precisely the problems are, but also a forceful and often insightful attempt to solve them. ...the book makes a highly readable and stimulating contribution to recent literature in the philosophy of perception.' Critical Philosophy, 2:1 (1985)

• I. Caveats.- 1. Physicalism and Direct Realism.- 2. Adverbialism.- 3. Acts and Objects.- 4. Whither Direct Realism?.- II. The Sensory Scene.- 1. The Argument for Immediacy.- 2. The Argument from Infallibility.- 3. The Argument from Conceptual Frameworks.- 4. The Very Idea of Direct Realism.- III. Qualitative Appearing.- 1. The Sensum Theory.- 2. The Compound Thing Theory.- 3. The Multiple Inherence Theory.- 4. The Multiple Relation Theory.- 5. The Impasse: A Look Backward.- 6. The Multiple Relation Theory Revisited: Major Objections.- 7. Direct Realism and the Multiple Relation Theory Reconciled.- IV. Illusion.- 1. The Received Answers: Direct Realists Manqué.- 2. No Intrinsic Difference: Another Interpretation.- 3. Descriptive Neutrality and Direct Realism.- 4. Indeterminate Perceptual Objects: The Speckled Hen Example.- 5. The Phantom Limb Objection.- V. Time Lag.- 1. The Received Answers.- 2. A New Beginning.- 3. Obstacles and Objections.- 4. Common Sense and Causation.- 5. Microparticles: Causation’s Last Resort.- 6. Color Perception: A Counterexample.- VI. Phenomenalism.- 1. Classical Phenomenalism: Mill.- 2. Varieties of Phenomenalism: Hume.- 3. Phenomenalism and Logical Constructions: Russell.- 4. Phenomenalism: A Budget of Difficulties.- 5. The Anomaly of Phenomenalism.