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SERRANO, Nicolás Alejandro. Conceptualism and Contradictory Experiences. Tópicos (México) [online]. 2020, n.58, pp.259-289.  Epub 30-Maio-2020. ISSN 0188-6649.  https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v0i58.1075.

In this paper I provide a conceptualist answer to Crane’s (1988a; 1988b) waterfall illusion argument in the representation-alist debate about the type of content of perceptual experience. First, I analyze the general structure of the argument, according to which the putatively contradictory content of certain optical illusions shows that perceptual experiences have non-conceptual content. Second, I discuss some conceptualist answers to the argument in order to show why they are not satisfactory. Finally, I offer a conceptualist answer, that I call “dissociative”, according to which the content of the waterfall illusion is not actually contradictory.

Palavras-chave : waterfall illusion; perceptual experience; non-conceptual content; conceptual content.