Berkeley and the ‘Mighty Difficulty’: The Idealist Lesson of the Inverted Retinal Image
dc.contributor.author | Yaffe, Gideon | |
dc.date | 2021-11-25T13:34:37.000 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-26T11:43:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-26T11:43:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003-01-01T00:00:00-08:00 | |
dc.identifier | fss_papers/3729 | |
dc.identifier.contextkey | 3114829 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/3150 | |
dc.description.abstract | It's a child's problem: we see objects as oriented correctly, both up-down and left -right, despite the fact that our retinal images of them are inverted in both respects; how can this be? The reason it is a child's problem is that the explanation is so easy: there is no reason to think that the properties of our retinal images should correspond to the content of the visual experiences they cause. Our retinal images are tiny; we see things as much larger. Our retinal images are uniformly the color of the retina; we see things as possessing a diversity of colors. None of these discrepancies, including the discrepancy in orientation, are unexpected, and so none genuinely problematic. | |
dc.title | Berkeley and the ‘Mighty Difficulty’: The Idealist Lesson of the Inverted Retinal Image | |
dc.source.journaltitle | Faculty Scholarship Series | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-11-26T11:43:05Z | |
dc.identifier.legacycoverpage | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/3729 | |
dc.identifier.legacyfulltext | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4721&context=fss_papers&unstamped=1 |