title: Notions such as "truth" or "correspondence to the objective world" play no role in explanatory accounts of perception.
abstract: Hoffman, Singh, and Prakash (Psychonomic Review and Bulletin, 2015, in press) intend to show that perceptions are evolutionarily tuned to fitness rather than to truth. I argue, partly in accordance with their objective, that issues of 'truth' or 'veridicality' have no place in explanatory accounts of perception theory, and rather belong to either ordinary discourse or to philosophy. I regard, however, their general presumption that the evolutionary development of core achievements of the human perceptual system would be primarily determined by aspects of fitness and adaption as unwarranted in light of the evidence available.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Psychology, University of Kiel, D-24098, Kiel, Germany. mausfeld@psychologie.uni-kiel.de.
authors.forename: Rainer
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mausfeld
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D010465:Perception; D011582:Psychological Theory
keywords: Concepts; Mathematical models; Visual perception