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Frank Jackson: The Greatest Argument Against Materialism

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The Adverbial Approach to Perceptual Experience

When you try and describe the phenomenology of perceptual experience, you do end up by describing what your case of vision looking at. And it's hard to see how the adverbial theory says that. By the time you put all these adverbial modifications, of course, the many property problems, something's gone crazily wrong. So I've taken a sense data route, across the senseData route, and put in how things have been represented to be. It does seem to be actually quite close to the adverbs approach. We are taking it to be tree-with-the-wind leaning,. Once you've got rid of the object, it seems, you are much closer

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