Research On Searle's Perceptual Intentionalit

Over the last century,there have been many philosophical explorations of perception and its related properties.These explorations have shed light on perception from different perspectives.Intentionalism and naive-realism represent two of these.The former holds that we represent the world indirectly through the intentionality of perception.The latter holds that there is a direct and transparent relationship between people and the world.Searle,on the other hand,maintains the position of direct positivism while at the same time giving an account of perception in terms of intentionality.This appears to be contradictory.However,for Searle,direct positivism should be accounted for precisely by the intentionality of perception.To account for this intrinsic connection is one of the goals that Searle’s theory of perception seeks to achieve.he paper begins with a discursive analysis of ’perception’.In this way he exposes the bad arguments of previous philosophies of perception,namely the confusion of two senses of perception,and therefore the misuse of ideas and sensory material as objects of perception.Searle argues that when we use the verb ’to perceive’we use it in two senses: the constructive sense and the intentional sense.Perception in the constructive sense means that we perceive the perceptual experience itself,in which case perception is a form of consciousness within the field of consciousness of the brain;perception in the intentional sense means that we perceive objects or states of affairs,in which case perception contains three elements "perceptual experience" "intentional causation" and "objects or states of affairs in the world".This paper will then examine perception in two separate senses.On the one hand,the way in which perceptual experiences in the constructive sense exist and their logical characteristics will be explained.On the other hand,the three elements of intentional perception and the basis for their operation will be clarified.Through this study,it will ultimately show how perception is intrinsically related to the external world and how our perceptual experience is what it is.