An Indirect Defense of Direct Realism Ryan Hickerson, University of California, San Diego The Journal of Mind and Behavior, Winter 2004, Volume 25, Number 1, Pages 1–6, ISSN 0271–0137 Smythies and Ramachandran (1997) claim that the direct realist theory of perception has been refuted by recent psychophysics. This paper takes up the psychophysics, and the