Abstract

In this paper, I investigate the role of properties for perceptual experience via a critical examination of the view that perceptual experience has properties as its primary objects and also has those properties as the determiner of its phenomenal character. The view in question can take two forms according to whether properties are construed as universals or as tropes. So I divide the view into two types and show that each of them has its own problems. In conclusion I propose an alternative view concerning the role of properties for perceptual experience.