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What is Naive Realism? Imagine everyone in the world wearing a pair of invisible glasses. These special glasses show them the world around them. Naive realism is the belief that the world you see through your own personal pair of glasses is the only true world. It is as if no one else’s glasses show any different picture. This view is straightforward: If something seems real to you, it must ...
Mar 30, 2017 · Introduction. Naïve realism is a theory in the philosophy of perception: primarily, the philosophy of vision. Historically, the term was used to name a variant of “direct realism,” which claimed (1) that everyday material objects, such as caterpillars and cadillacs, have mind-independent existence (the “realism” part); (2) that our visual perception of these material objects is not ...
Mar 8, 2021 · Naïve Realism claims that veridical perceptual experiences essentially consist in genuine relations between perceivers and mind-independent objects and their features. The contemporary debate in the philosophy of perception has devoted little attention to assessing one of the main motivations to endorse Naïve Realism–namely, that it is the only view which articulates our ‘intuitive ...
- Carlo Raineri
- Carlo.raineri@manchester.ac.uk
- 2021
Aug 19, 2022 · Naive Realism is the view of a physical world existing independently of human minds and that this world can be studied and understood without any reference to human consciousness.
- Proximity
- Orientation
- Subject’S Location
- Time
- Lighting Conditions
- Obstructions
Proximity is a determinable spatial relation between objects and/or locations. Our visual experience provides us with a conception of what determinate proximity relations, or distances, are, e.g. of what it is for one thing to be ten feet away from another. It also enables us to think demonstratively about distances, e.g. to think of the distance b...
The spatial orientations of perceived objects as well as of the perceiver herself bear on the character of her visual experience. In the case of objects, the classic example is the circular coin which “looks elliptical” when tilted. In the case of a perceiver, the visual experience of a subject standing on her head, for example, differs from her vi...
It might be denied that visual experience plays any distinctive role in enabling subjects to think demonstratively about their own locations. The paradigmatic way of making demonstrative reference to one’s own location is by the use of “here”. Our ability to think “here”-thoughts, however, seems entirely independent of our visual experience. Any su...
The time at which a subject undergoes a given visual experience is not plausibly understood as a component of the scene with which her experience acquaints her. Perceivers are not visually acquainted with the time, nor with changes in time.Footnote 16 Their ability to think demonstratively about these things, whether via “now”-thoughts or via thoug...
Changes in lighting conditions can bring about changes in the character of a subject’s visual experience, even if all the objects in the scene with which she is visually acquainted remain, and are recognized as remaining, numerically and qualitatively the same. Simple naïve realism can accommodate this fact by noting, first, that the presence of li...
Often, when an object visible to a perceiver is partially occluded by an obstruction, the perceiver will nevertheless visually register certain features of the occluded portion of the object. Suppose, for example, that you are looking at a red barn, with a part of its facing wall occluded by an intervening barbecue grill. Your visual experience wil...
- Justin Christy
- jchristy@nd.edu
- 2019
Naive realism, also known as direct or common-sense realism, is a theory of perception that suggests we see the world directly as it is. This concept argues that our sensory perceptions present us with a world that exists independently of us, and the things we see, hear, touch, etc., are more or less as we perceive them to be.
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Jan 6, 2023 · Naïve realism is a theory of the nature of some experiences and their conscious or phenomenal characters. Naïve realists hold that perceptual experiences have the conscious characters they do partly by having such aspects of the mind-independent world as constituents.
