Anti-Individualism and Perceptual Representation

Authors

  • Tyler Burge
    Faculty of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Carlos Muñoz-Suárez
    LOGOS - Research Group in Analytic Philosophy, PERPS Project, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

Tyler Burge's anti-individualism – the view that individuating many of a creature's mental kinds is necessarily dependent on relations that the creature bears to the physical, or in some cases social, environment – backs his theory of perceptual representation, i.e. perceptual anti-individualism. Perceptual anti-individualism articulates a framework that, according to Burge, perceptual psychology assumed without articulation. In this interview, Burge talks about the main tenets and underpinnings of perceptual anti-individualism in relation to classic representational theories of perceptual experience, reductive theories of mental content, theories of phenomenal consciousness, and other associated topics.