Max Minden Ribeiro
Perceptual Presence
2025 | 202 s. | engelska

ISBN: 978-91-89874-75-6, 978-91-89874-76-3

There are different ways to bring a cypress tree to mind. We might think about a tree, speak about it, or imagine it. The cypress might come to us unbidden in memory, or in dream. But we might also see a cypress
tree, or feel its branches in our hands. This way of bringing the tree to mind is distinctive because the tree itself seems to be present in our experience. Our experience has perceptual presence.
In this doctoral thesis, I defend an account of perceptual presence. I argue that perceptual presence is the manifest dependence of experience on mind-independent objects. I propose that it is best explained within a point of view-act-object metaphysical framework.