Commentary on Jack Lyons's Perception and Basic Beliefs

The chief problem facing percept experientialism (the choice of percepts as experiences) is that there are too many levels of percepts to choose from. [...]at the low end the states are introspectively vivid and qualitatively rich, thus serve the subjective 123 Commentary on Jack Lyonss Perception and Basic Beliefs 459 role experientialism requires, but the inference to our usual belief contents is still extremely problematic. [...]the clairvoyance capacity of Nyrmoons species is like the human visual system in the specied respects. [...]it should not be assumedas Lyonss methodology seems to assumethat we can work from scientic truths about cognitive systems to what is represented in common sense about perception and other epistemic matters (in other words, to our folk epistemology).4 If Lyonss proposal is not accepted, what should reliabilism turn to in order to handle the counterexamples? [...]the expertbut not the novicecan apply her visual classication procedure (involving matching observed features to stored criteria) to accurately classify the bird in question.