The Presentativity of Perceptual Experience

As is well known, direct realism on perception claims that we straightforwardly perceive objects and properties of the world. In this paper, I will try to show how the phenomenological datum according to which perceptual experiences have a presentational character can be explained in direct realist’s terms both for perceptions (both veridical and nonveridical) and for hallucinations. This prompts me to drop the naive realist account of the datum. It also lets me see the presentational character and the (singular) representational content of perceptual experiences as independent.