# The Limitations of Perceptual Transparency  ## Metadata - Author: [[Laura Gow]] - Full Title: The Limitations of Perceptual Transparency - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: The text discusses the limitations of the idea that perceptual experience is transparent and its implications for the metaphysics of perception. Internalists propose that phenomenal character is internally constituted, challenging the externalist account. The debate over transparency in perception highlights the distinction between phenomenological and metaphysical transparency. - URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/176307278 - Source File: THE LIMITATIONS OF PERCEPTUAL TRANSPARENCY by Gow.pdf ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > The idea that perceptual experience is transparent has been used by philoso- phers who hold an externalist account of the metaphysics of perceptual experience—na¨ıve realists and externalist representationalists. In the next sec- tion, I will argue that we must distinguish between what I call phenomenological transparency and metaphysical transparency. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hyfy1tn30bsb5jnep9ehfaj7))