Blindsight. Absence of visual awareness despite the presence of visual capacity. Philosophical interest arises because the phenomenon casts doubt on the relation usually assumed between consciousness and perception. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy

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Contents Preface Introductions: Intuitions: Religious, Literary, and Ethical Moral Intuitionism Moral and Ethical Visions A Condition for Moral and Ethical Vision? Envoi Endnotes Part One: Discourses Essay I: Understanding European and Islamic Cultures Lines From An Arabic Lyric Understanding Figurative Discourses Externally A Difficulty With Cultural Externalism Understanding Figurative Discourses Internally A Problem With Cultural Internalism Why Cultural Internalism and Externalism Fail An Objection What This Figurative Discourse Is About Envoi Endnotes Essay II: Figurative Discourse in Japanese Poetry Beside the Stream of Izumi A Culturally Internalist Account of Interpretation Interpretation and Metaphysics Interpretation as an Active Ascension of the Spirit Metaphysics and Aesthetics Interpreting Figurative Discourses Metaphysically Envoi Endnotes Part Two: Apprehending and Saying Essay III: On Being Enabled to Say What Is "Truly Real" Language and 'What Is Truly Real' Inquiring of Shinran Illusion, Deception, Lies and Foolishness Considering an Interpretation Hearing a Second Question Envoi Endnotes Essay IV: Apprehending Truths About Suffering Representative Eco-Ethical Claims Elements of A Mixed Theory of Truth Self-Referential Eco-Ethical Claims An Eco-Ethical Theory of Truth? Eco-Ethical Claims and Suffering Fictional Truths? Envoi Endnotes Part Three: Ethics and Suffering Essay V: Elements for an Ethics of Suffering Ordinary Senses of "Suffering" Special Senses of "Suffering" What is the Suffering in an Ethics of Suffering? What An Ethics of Suffering Tries to Address On Several Elements for An Ethics of Suffering Envoi Endnotes Essay VI: Seeing the Truth of Ethical Matters Truth as "Makoto" A Problem with Truth as Exclusively Logos Intuitions and Moral Intuitionism Seeing Ethical Values? Ethical Intuiting as "Seeing" Ethical Truths Envoi Endnotes Envoi: Of Blindly Seeing