SEEING THINGS AS THEY ARE

This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual e
xperience. With special emphasis on vision Searle explains how the raw phenomeno
logy of perception sets the content and the conditions of satisfaction of experi
ence. The central question concerns the relation between the subjective consciou
s perceptual field and the objective perceptual field. Everything in the objecti
ve field is either perceived or can be perceived. Nothing in the subjective fiel
d is perceived nor can be perceived precisely because the events in the subjecti
ve field consist of the perceivings, whether veridical or not, of the events in
the objective field.