@article{5b49fb9608994cd99c612b24a0e6f475,
title = "Visual acquaintance, action and the explanatory gap",
abstract = "Much attention has recently been paid to the idea, which I label {\textquoteleft}External World Acquaintance{\textquoteright} (EWA), that the phenomenal character of perceptual experience is partially constituted by external features. One motivation for EWA which has received relatively little discussion is its alleged ability to help deal with the {\textquoteleft}Explanatory Gap{\textquoteright}. I provide a reformulation of this general line of thought, which makes clearer how and when EWA could help to explain the specific phenomenal nature of visual experience. In particular, I argue that by focusing on the different kinds of perceptual actions that are available in the case of visual spatial vs. colour perception, we get a natural explana-tion for why we should expect the specific nature of colour phenomenology to remain less readily intelligible than the specific nature of visual spatial phenomenology.",
keywords = "Acquaintance, Action, Appearances, Color, Color primitivism, Embodied cognition, Enactivism, Explanatory gap, Hard problem of consciousness, Na{\"i}ve-realism, Perception, Perceptual experience, Perspective, Phenomenal consciousness, Philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Representationalism, Sensorimotor, Spatial perception, Vision, Visual experience",
author = "Thomas Raleigh",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements Versions of this paper were presented at events at the University of Leeds, King{\textquoteright}s College London, the University of Barcelona, the Institute of Philosophy in London and the University of Antwerp. Many thanks to the audiences on all those occasions. Thanks in particular to Dominic Alford-Duguid, Marc Artiga, Mike Beaton, Ori Beck, Bill Brewer, Tony Cheng, Ellen Fridland, Anil Gomes, Jonathan Knowles, Heather Logue, Clare Mac Cumhaill, Mike Martin, Anders Nes and Stephen Raleigh for helpful comments and criticisms. Finally, I am very grateful to two anonymous referees for this journal for their extremely perceptive and helpful reports, which greatly improved this paper. Funding was provided by German Research Council (DFG) (Grant No. Br 5210/1-). Funding Information: Versions of this paper were presented at events at the University of Leeds, King{\textquoteright}s College London, the University of Barcelona, the Institute of Philosophy in London and the University of Antwerp. Many thanks to the audiences on all those occasions. Thanks in particular to Dominic Alford-Duguid, Marc Artiga, Mike Beaton, Ori Beck, Bill Brewer, Tony Cheng, Ellen Fridland, Anil Gomes, Jonathan Knowles, Heather Logue, Clare Mac Cumhaill, Mike Martin, Anders Nes and Stephen Raleigh for helpful comments and criticisms. Finally, I am very grateful to two anonymous referees for this journal for their extremely perceptive and helpful reports, which greatly improved this paper. Funding was provided by German Research Council (DFG) (Grant No. Br 5210/1-). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Nature B.V. 2018.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1007/s11229-018-01907-x",
language = "English",
volume = "198",
pages = "S4081--S4106",
journal = "Synthese",
issn = "0039-7857",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
}