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Perception and cognition

essays in the philosophy of psychology

Perception and cognition
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An edition of Perception and cognition (2009)

Perception and cognition

essays in the philosophy of psychology

Synopsis: How do we see? This question has fascinated and perplexed philosophers and scientists for millennia. In visual perception, mind and world meet, when light reflected from objects enters the eyes and stimulates the nerves leading to activity in the brain near the back of the head. This neural activity yields conscious experiences of a world in three dimensions, clothed in colors, and immediately recognized as (say) ground, sky, grass, trees, and friends. The visual brain also produces nonconscious representations that interact with other brain systems for perception and cognition and that help to regulate our visually guided actions. But how does all of this really work? The answers concern the physiology, psychology, and philosophy of visual perception and cognition. Gary Hatfield's essays address fundamental questions concerning, in Part I, the psychological processes underlying spatial perception and perception of objects; in Part II, psychological theories and metaphysical controversies about color perception and qualia; and, in Part III, the history and philosophy of theories of vision, including methodological controversies surrounding introspection and involving the relations between psychology and the fields of neuroscience and cognitive science. An introductory chapter provides a unified overview; an extensive reference list rounds out the volume.

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533

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Table of Contents

Representation and content in some (actual) theories of perception
Representation in perception and cognition : task analysis, psychological functions, and rule instantiation
Perception as unconscious inference
Representation and constraints : the inverse problem and the structure of visual space
On perceptual constancy
Getting objects for free (or not) : the philosophy and psychology of object perception
Color perception and neural encoding : does metameric matching entail a loss of information?
Objectivity and subjectivity revisited : color as a psychobiological property
Sense data and the mind body problem
The reality of qualia
The sensory core and the medieval foundations of early modern perceptual theory
Postscript (2008) on Ibn al-Haytham's (Alhacen's) theory of vision
Attention in early scientific psychology
Psychology, philosophy, and cognitive science : reflections on the history and philosophy of experimental psychology
What can the mind tell us about the brain? : psychology, neurophysiology, and constraint
Introspective evidence in psychology.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
121/.34
Library of Congress
B828.45 .H38 2009, BF241, B828.45.H38 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
533

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Open Library
OL22665855M
ISBN 13
9780199228218, 9780199228201
LCCN
2008046063
OCLC/WorldCat
251213452
Library Thing
8667383
Goodreads
6461458

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