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Autore |
Vision Gerald |
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Titolo |
Problems of vision : rethinking the causal theory of perception / / Gerald Vision [[electronic resource]] |
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New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-773140-6 |
1-280-45267-6 |
0-19-535570-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (286 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Perception |
Sense (Philosophy) |
Visual perception |
Senses and sensation |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliography: p263-69. _ Includes index. |
Previously issued in print: 1997. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-269) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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