Aristotle was the first to provide a description of direct realism. In On the Soul he describes how a see-er is informed of the object itself by way of the hylomorphic form carried … 展开

One concern with indirect realism is that if simple data flow and information processing is assumed then something in the brain must be interpreting incoming data. This something is … 展开

• Aspectism – Art depicting Outward Appearances
• Critical realism – Theory that some of our sense-data can accurately represent external objects
• Disjunctivism
• Enactivism – … 展开

Argument from illusion
This argument was "first offered in a more or less fully explicit form in Berkeley (1713)." It is also referred to as the problem of conflicting appearances (e.g. Myles Burnyeat's article Conflicting Appearances). It has … 展开

The above argument invites the conclusion of a perceptual dualism that raises the issue of how and whether the object can be known by experience. The adverbial theory proposes … 展开

• Online papers on representationalism, by various authors, compiled by David Chalmers
• This is a simulation - A short article, aimed at the general public, arguing for the representative theory of perception. 展开