Abstract

I defend epistemological Direct Realism, the view that perceptual experiences provide noninferential justification for beliefs about the external world. Direct Realism has two chief theoretical advantages over Indirect Realism (the view that we have only inferential justification for external world beliefs). First, Direct Realism enables us to account for why ordinary, unsophisticated observers are justified in their perceptual beliefs, given that they do not in fact base their perceptual beliefs on any further propositions. Second, Indirect Realists, unlike Direct Realists, must posit an unmotivated asymmetry among basic cognitive faculties, whereby some but not all faculties may legitimately be presumed reliable until proven otherwise.

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