Behavioral and Brain Sciences



Short Communication

Sins of omission and commission


Gerard O'Brien a1 and Jon Opie a1
a1 Department of Philosophy, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005 gerard.obrien@adelaide.edu.au jon.opie@adelaide.edu.au http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/Philosophy/gobrien.htm http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/Philosophy/jopie.htm

Abstract

O'Regan & Noë (O&N) fail to address adequately the two most historically important reasons for seeking to explain visual experience in terms of internal representations. They are silent about the apparently inferential nature of perception, and mistaken about the significance of the phenomenology accompanying dreams, hallucinations, and mental imagery.