Download or read book Indirect Perception written by Irvin Rock and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This posthumous volume, the culmination of a long and distinguished career, brings together an original essay by the author together with a careful selection of previously published articles (most by Rock) on the theory that perception is an indirect process in which visual experience is derived by inference, rather than being directly and independently determined by retinal stimulation.
Download or read book Perception written by Brian J. Rogers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian J. Rogers analyses the psychological and philosophical aspects of perception, and argues that what we see is not what we perceive. He investigates recent insights gained from the use of imaging techniques, and the attempts to model perceptual processes in AI systems.
Download or read book Direct Perception written by Claire F. Michaels and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Skepticism and the Veil of Perception written by Michael Huemer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In opposition to both skeptics and representationalists, Huemer (philosophy, U. of Colorado, Boulder) presents a theory of perceptual awareness, according to which perception gives us direct awareness of real objects and non-inferential knowledge of the properties of these objects. He responds to the major arguments for skepticism, including the infinite regress argument, the problem of the criterion, the brain in the vat, and the impossibility of verification. c. Book News Inc.
Download or read book Lectures on Perception written by Michael T. Turvey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective addresses the generic principles by which each and every kind of life form—from single celled organisms (e.g., difflugia) to multi-celled organisms (e.g., primates)—perceives the circumstances of their living so that they can behave adaptively. It focuses on the fundamental ability that relates each and every organism to its surroundings, namely, the ability to perceive things in the sense of how to get about among them and what to do, or not to do, with them. The book’s core thesis breaks from the conventional interpretation of perception as a form of abduction based on innate hypotheses and acquired knowledge, and from the historical scientific focus on the perceptual abilities of animals, most especially those abilities ascribed to humankind. Specifically, it advances the thesis of perception as a matter of laws and principles at nature’s ecological scale, and gives equal theoretical consideration to the perceptual achievements of all of the classically defined ‘kingdoms’ of organisms—Archaea, Bacteria, Protoctista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia.
Download or read book The Nature of Existence written by John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Intuitive Basis of Knowledge written by Nikolaĭ Onufrievich Losskiĭ and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The nature of existence written by Charlie Dunbar Broad and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Atlas of Reality written by Robert C. Koons and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 1067 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics presents an extensive examination of the key topics, concepts, and guiding principles of metaphysics. Represents the most comprehensive guide to metaphysics available today Offers authoritative coverage of the full range of topics that comprise the field of metaphysics in an accessible manner while considering competing views Explores key concepts such as space, time, powers, universals, and composition with clarity and depth Articulates coherent packages of metaphysical theses that include neo-Aristotelian, Quinean, Armstrongian, and neo-Humean Carefully tracks the use of common assumptions and methodological principles in metaphysics
Download or read book Fiction and the Ways of Knowing written by Avrom Fleishman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly individual study, Avrom Fleishman explores a wide range of literary references to human culture—the culture of ideas, facts, and images. Each critical essay in Fiction and the Ways of Knowing takes up for sustained analysis a major British novel of the nineteenth or the twentieth century. The novels are analyzed in the light of social, historical, philosophical, and other perspectives that can be grouped under the human sciences. The diversity of critical contexts in these thirteen essays is organized by Avrom Fleishman's governing belief in the interrelations of literature and other ways of interpreting the world. The underlying assumptions of this approach—as explained in his introductory essay—are that fiction is capable of encompassing even the most recondite facts and recalcitrant ideas; that fiction, though never a mirror of reality, is linked to realities and takes part in the real; and that a critical reading may be informed by scientific knowledge without reducing the literary work to a schematic formula. Fleishman investigates the matters of fact and belief that make up the designated meanings, the intellectual contexts, and the speculative parallels in three types of novel. Some of the novels discussed make it clear that their authors are informed on matters beyond the nonspecialist's range; these essays help bridge this information gap. Other fictional works are only to be grasped in an awareness of the cultural lore tacitly distributed in their own time; a modern reader must make the effort to fathom their anachronisms. And other novels can be found to open passageways that their authors can only have glimpsed intuitively; these must be pursued with great caution but equal diligence. The novels discussed include Little Dorrit, The Way We Live Now, Daniel Deronda, he Return of the Native, and The Magus. Also examined are Wuthering Heights, Vanity Fair, Northanger Abbey, To the Lighthouse, Under Western Eyes, Ulysses, and A Passage to India.
Download or read book Visual Perception and Action in Sport written by A. Mark Williams and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed review of much of the existing research on visual perception and sports performance. It summarises and integrates the findings of up to five hundred articles from areas as diverse as cognitive and ecological psychology.
Download or read book The Foundations of Cognitive Archaeology written by Marc A. Abramiuk and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An empirically supported proposal for synthesizing multiple approaches to the study of the mind in the past. In The Foundations of Cognitive Archaeology, Marc Abramiuk proposes a multidisciplinary basis for the study of the mind in the past, arguing that archaeology and the cognitive sciences have much to offer one another. Abramiuk draws on relevant topics from philosophy, biological anthropology, cognitive psychology, cognitive anthropology, and archaeology to establish theoretically founded and empirically substantiated principles of a discipline that integrates different approaches to mind-related archaeological research. Abramiuk discusses the two ways that archaeologists have traditionally viewed the human mind: as a universal or as a relative interface with the environment. He argues that neither view by itself can satisfactorily serve as a basis for gleaning insight into all aspects of the mind in the past and, therefore, the mind is more appropriately studied using multiple approaches. He explains the rationale for using these approaches in mind-related archaeological research, reviewing the literature in both cognitive psychology and cognitive anthropology on human memory, perception, and reasoning. Drawing on archaeological and genetic evidence, Abramiuk investigates the evolution of the mind through the Upper Paleolithic era—when the ancient mind became functionally comparable to the modern human mind. Finally, Abramiuk offers a model for the establishment of a discipline dealing with the study of the mind in the past that integrates all the approaches discussed.
Download or read book The Problem of Perception written by A. D. Smith and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a major Contribution to the theory of perception, A.D.Smith presents a truly original defense of direct realism the view that in perception we are directly aware of things in a physical world. It offers two arguements against direct realism-one conceening illusion, and one concerning hallueination that upto now no theory of perception could adequately rebut.At the heart of Smiths theory is a new way of drawing the distinction between perception and sensation alone with an unusual treatment of the nature of object of halluecination .
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology written by David H. Jonassen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of this handbook updates and expands its review of the research, theory, issues and methodology that constitute the field of educational communications and technology. Organized into seven sectors, it profiles and integrates the following elements of this rapidly changing field.
Download or read book Phenomenal Qualities written by Paul Coates and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A team of distinguished philosophers and psychologists explore the nature of phenomenal qualities, the qualities of conscious experiences, and the ways in which they fit in with our understanding of mind and reality. This volume offers an indispensable resource for anyone wishing to understand the nature of conscious experience.
Download or read book The Perceptionalist written by Edward John Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Perceptionalist or mental science written by Edward J. Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
