Sense Data: the Sensible Approach

In this paper, I present a version of a sense-data approach to perception, which differs to a certain extent fromwell-knownversions like the one put forward by Jackson. I compare the sense-data view to the currently most popular alternative theories of perception, the so-called Theory of Appearing (a very specific form of disjunctivist approaches) on the one hand and reductive representationalist approaches on the other. I defend the sense-data approach on the basis that it improves substantially on those alternative theories.