Naive Realism with Many Fundamental Kinds

Naive realism is a theory of perception with great explanatory ambitions. It has been influentially argued that, in order to realize these explanatory ambitions, the naive realist should say that any perception belongs to just one fundamental kind. I think, however, that adopting this commitment does not particularly help the naive realist to realize her explanatory ambitions, and so is not warranted. This result is significant because once this commitment about fundamental kinds is relinquished, we see that it is possible to develop some new and surprising forms of naive realism-most notably, what I call pluralist naive realism.