# Perception and Its Objects (review) **Opening (not a real abstract):** Brewer’s compact and readable book is an important defense of what is sometimes called “the relational view” or “naïve realism” in the philosophy of perception. He begins with the following “Inconsistent Triad”: (I) Physical objects are mind-independent. (II) Physical objects are the direct objects of perception. (III) The direct objects of perception are mind-dependent. (p. 11) (I) is a “commonsense starting point…that the natures of such things as stones, tables, trees, and animals themselves are independent of the ways in which such physical objects do or may appear in anyone’s experience of or thought about the world” (p. 2). (II) is a little trickier. Brewer thinks a slightly weaker thesis is obvious, namely that physical objects are presented to us in perception, which amounts to: the utterly uncontested sense in which we see and otherwise consciously **Authors:** [[Byrne]]