Subjective Factors in the Perception of Size

In recent decades, and with the rise of the biological sciences, the color literature especially has taken seriously evidence from ethology and comparative psychology. However, there has been significantly less discussion of comparative cases in other areas of philosophy of perception. This essay aims to bring insights from animal studies into dialogue with more traditional ways of thinking about the perception of size. It argues that an indexing approach to perceptual representation, pioneered by Prettyman (Perceptual content is indexed to attention. Synthese, 194(10), 4039–4054, 2017) in response to evidence of attentional effects in perception, cannot fully address the challenge.