Heidegger’s Notion of Perception

Posted on February 18, 2010
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Gary on Heidegger’s notion of perception. I’m not sure I’d want to call it direct realism due to that terms connection to Reid’s epistemology. He points out that for Kant perception is representation. For Heidegger “is the process of intentionally directing-oneself-towards the noumenal realm without any sort of representational mediation. We can say that for Heidegger, perception is the experience of responding to how the thing-in-itself shows itself to us.” It’s a great post similar in some ways to the Peircean critique I made earlier today.