Perception is our key to the world. It plays at least three different roles in our lives. It justifies
beliefs and provides us with knowledge of our environment. It brings about conscious mental …

A Naïve Realist Theory of Colour defends the view that colours are mind-independent
properties of things in the environment, that are distinct from properties identified by the …

I argue that perceptual consciousness is constituted by a mental activity. The mental activity
in question is the activity of employing perceptual capacities, such as discriminatory …

Colours appear to instantiate a number of structural properties: for instance, they stand in
distinctive relations of similarity and difference, and admit of a fundamental distinction into …

Revelation, or the view that the essence of phenomenal properties is presented to us, is as
intuitively attractive as it is controversial. It is notably at the core of defences of anti …

Introduction olour enjoys a special place in Santayana's philosophy. Colour, he notes, is “a
most pungent and positive essence”(RB 90), one whose proper station is among what he …

The paper presents and discusses phenomenological facts about perceptual spaces and
percepts, but ends with a few thoughts about possible causal explanations of such spaces …

This dissertation addresses the metaphysics of conscious experience. I defend a thesis
labelled Colour Simplicity, according to which the properties constitutive of what it is like to …