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These essays by Robert Schwartz on topics in the theory of vision are written from a pragmatic perspective. The issues and arguments will interest both philosophers and psychologists, covering new ground and bridging gaps between these disciplines. Schwartz begins historically, with discussions of p...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schwartz, Robert, 1940-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Vision.
Visual perception.
Vision, Ocular
Visual Perception
Perception visuelle.
sight (sense)
visual perception.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Vision
Visual perception
Visuell perception.
NEUROSCIENCE/Visual Neuroscience
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1 Seeing distance from a Berkeleian perspective
  • 2 Size
  • 3 Making maximum sense of "minimum sensible"
  • 4 Heterogeneity and the senses
  • 5 What Berkeley sees in the man born blind
  • 6 The role of inference in vision
  • 7 Making occlusion more transparent
  • 8 Directed perception
  • 9 Representation and resemblance
  • 10 Pictures, puzzles, and paradigms
  • 11 Vision and cognition in picture perception
  • 12 The concept of an "object" in perception and cognition
  • 13 Avoiding errors about errors
  • 14 Pluralist perspectives on perceptual error
  • 15 An Austinian look at the "objects of perception."

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