# Uncovering Appearances Chapter Four **Opening (not a real abstract):** Direct Perception, Experience and Surfaces Over the last two chapters I have offered a reconstruction of the traditional debate about perception in terms of a concern with the nature of sensory consciousness and in doing so highlighted the connections with debates about phenomenal consciousness. Absent from this reconstruction has been any discussion of the contrast between direct and indirect perception, or that between immediate and mediate objects of perception. Indeed, the moral stressed at the end of the last chapter is precisely that our primary concern should be with the nature of sensory episodes rather than the objects of those episodes. This line of interpretation may justifiably raise two concerns. The first worry is just that since so much of the traditional debate has been couched in terms of the contrast **Authors:** [[Direct Perception, Experience and Surfaces]]