Perceptual transparency and the temporal structure of experience

According to theMatching Thesis(MT), the temporal structure of experience in time matches the apparent temporal structure of the objects and events represented in the content of perceptual experience. In this paper I critically address attempts to show the MT on the grounds that perceptual experience istransparent: that experiences themselves possess no introspectively discernible temporal structure apart from that of the apparent objects perceived.Pacesuch aTransparency Argumentfor the MT, I argue that considerations of perceptual transparency can in fact groundnoview about the relationship between the temporal structure of perceptual experiences and the apparent temporal structure of objects and events that experience represents. I defend this outcome against a line of objection having to do with self-knowledge.