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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451095003321

Autore

Vision Gerald

Titolo

Problems of vision [[electronic resource] ] : rethinking the causal theory of perception / / Gerald Vision

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997

ISBN

1-280-45267-6

0-19-535570-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Disciplina

121.34

131/.3

152.14

Soggetti

Perception

Sense (Philosophy)

Visual perception

Senses and sensation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-269) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Part I. The Basic Causal Requirement; 1. Introduction; 2. Objects, Sense-Data, and Visual Episodes; 3. The Case for Causation; Part II. Perception, Cognition, and Belief; 4. Visual Data; 5. The Credulous Eye; 6. The Generation of Perceptual Belief; Part III. Completing the Causal Theory; 7. Deviant Causal Chains; 8. Object Determination; 9. The Phenomenal Character of Seeing; Epilogue; Appendix: Frequently Cited Propositions and Tenets; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

In this text Gerald Vision argues for a new causal theory, one that engages provocatively with direct realism and makes no use of a now discredited subjectivism. This is intended for scholars and students of philosophy, particularly of metaphysics, and perception and causal theory.