In
Caspar Hare's theory of perspectival realism, there is a defining ''intrinsic'' property that the things that are in perceptual awareness have. Consider seeing object A but not object B. Of course, we can say that the visual experience of A is present ''to you'', and no visual experience of B is present ''to you''. But, it can be argued, this misses the fact that the visual experience of A is ''simply'' present, not relative to anything. This is what Hare's perspectival realism attempts to capture, resulting in a weak version of metaphysical
solipsism
Solipsism (; ) is the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known an ...
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As Hare points out, the same type of argument is often used in the philosophy of time to support theories such as
presentism. Of course, we can say that A is happening on
nsert today's date But, it can be argued, this misses the fact that A is ''simply'' happening (right now), not relative to anything.
Hare's theory of perspectival realism is closely related to his theory of
egocentric presentism Egocentric presentism is a form of solipsism introduced by Caspar Hare in which other persons can be conscious, but their experiences are simply not .
Similarly, in related work, Hare argues for a theory of perspectival realism in which other pers ...
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Several other philosophers have written reviews of Hare's work on this topic.
See also
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Metaphysical subjectivism
Subjectivism is the doctrine that "our own mental activity is the only unquestionable fact of our experience", instead of shared or communal, and that there is no external or objective truth.
The success of this position is historically attribute ...
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Centered world
A centered world, according to David Kellogg Lewis, consists of (1) a possible world, (2) an agent in that world, and (3) a time in that world. The concept of centered worlds has epistemic as well as metaphysical uses; for the latter, the thre ...
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* Benj Hellie's
vertiginous question Benj Hellie's vertiginous question is as follows: of all the subjects of experience out there, why is ''this'' one—the one corresponding to the human being referred to as Benj Hellie—the one whose experiences are ''live''? (The reader is suppose ...
* J.J. Valberg's
personal horizon
References
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External links
Hare, Caspar. Self-Bias, Time-Bias, and the Metaphysics of Self and Time. Preprint of article in The Journal of Philosophy (2007).Hare, Caspar. ''On Myself, and Other, Less Important Subjects.'' Early draft of book published by Princeton University Press (2009).Hare, Caspar. Realism About Tense and Perspective. Preprint of article in Philosophy Compass (2010).
Epistemological theories
Metaphysics of mind
Philosophical realism
Philosophy of time
Theory of mind