Charles Travis's Essay 'The Silence Of The Senses'

In his essay “The Silence of the Senses”, Charles Travis pushes back against the representationalist account of perception. He argues that perception experiences may prove to be veridical or delusive, but we need not posit a representational intermediary between experience and the world in order to account for this. He demonstrates this by providing an alternative explanation of the representationalist’s strongest evidence, the phenomenon of misleading experience. Representationalists such as A.J. Ayer, argue that cases of misleading experience, such as seeing a straight stick in water as bent, count as strong evidence that there must be a representational intermediary between our visual experience and the scene before the eyes. Travis denies