Consciousness and Knowledge
The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness July 9, 2020 Berit "brit" Brogaard, Elijah Chudnoff
Perceptual experiences can immediately and prima facie justify certain beliefs about the external world because they have a distinctive phenomenology regarding those contents. This view, a version of phenomenal dogmatism, is explored through several issues: whether immediate justification is possible, the debate between representational and relational theories of perception, how cognitive penetration affects epistemic justification, whether experiences consist of basic sensations and seemings, and whether perceptual content includes high-level properties. The chapter concludes by considering how these ideas might extend beyond perception.