This volume presents a collection of chapters examining fundamental assumptions of contemporary debates in the philosophy of perception. The chapters cover a wide range of topics, from the relation between scientific and philosophical theorizing about perception, to lessons we can learn from the history of philosophy of perception.
This volume presents a collection of chapters examining fundamental assumptions of contemporary debates in the philosophy of perception.
There are two sides to perception, both of which reflect the mind-to-world direction of fit of perceptual experiences: an epistemic objective side and a phenomenological subjective side. On the objective side ...
The philosophy of perception investigates the nature of our sensory experiences and their relation to reality. In the second edition of this popular book, William Fish introduces the subject thematically,...
The aim of the present work is to show the roots of the conception of perception as an active process, tracing the history of its development from Plato to modern philosophy.
This book presents fifteen new essays on the perceptual experience of such ephemera.
This book elucidates the nature of the cognitive penetrability and impenetrability hypotheses, assesses their plausibility, and explores their philosophical consequences.
Originally published in 1970, this volume brings together essays on Hypothesis and Perception.
The work presents chapters on forms of natural realism; theories of perceptual experience; representationalism; the argument from illusion; phenomenological senses; types of perceptual content; the representationalist/intentionalist thesis; ...
He argues that we should return to the theory sense-data in order to understand perception. In doing so he seeks to overturn a consensus that has dominated the philosophy of perception for nearly half a century.
This book is a discussion of some of the major philosophical problems centering around the topic of sense perception and the foundations of human knowledge.