This chapter explores an approach to visual experience known as ‘disjunctivism’. Section 1 lays out a conception of visual experience focused on two charged aspects of the phenomenon: its conscious portrayal of the world, and its perceptual contact with the world. Section 2 lays out the backbone of disjunctivism and relates it to that conception of visual experience. Section 3 lays out a range of disjunctive positions and shows how they share the backbone. Section 4 canvasses major motivations for disjunctivism and shows how they confer a dialectical advantage on one version of the approach. Sections 5 and 6 sketch that version, explore its details, and show how they can be used to rebut criticism found in the literature. Section 7 presents new worries for the view. Section 8 explores a pure kind of disjunctivism — one which avoids these worries — sketching when it counts as well motivated.
Keywords: experience, perception, pure disjunctivism, visual