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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808190303321

Autore

Vision Gerald

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-773140-6

1-280-45267-6

0-19-535570-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

121.34

131/.3

152.14

Soggetti

Perception

Sense (Philosophy)

Visual perception

Senses and sensation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliography: p263-69. _ Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1997.

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

Vision examines current philosophical problems concerning visual perception. He defends a species of 'direct realism' according to which perceiving is taken to be a two-place relation between perceivers and mind-independent objects.