What is the relevance of the existence of qualia for theories of perception? In his contribution to the Gendler and Hawthorne (eds.) Perceptual Experience , Tim Crane (”Is There a Perceptual Relation?”) answers: little to none. This is (I think) a surprising view, and one I disagree with. I’ll start with how I would answer the question before turning to Crane’s reasons for thinking the “question of qualia is not an important question” for the philosophy of perception.
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