How Dretske Criticized Siegel’s Argument to Further Explain Dretske’s Argument About How Perception is not Permeated by Cognition

Abstract

In Fred Dretske’s paper Perception versus Conception, he introduced an argument that perception does not have permeability, so that perception is not permeated by cognition. Dretske uses the thought experiment called The Goldilocks test to prove his argument, he also uses a few visual experiments such as the duck/rabbit visual experiment to further prove his argument. In this paper, I will discuss how Dretske argues that perception is not permeated by cognition, and how I find it is convincing to me. I will use the example of how Dretske criticized Siegel’s argument to further explain Dretske’s argument about how perception is not permeated by cognition.