Perception and Cognition
Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 February 2009
- ISBN 9780199228218
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages548 pages
- Size 234x156x30 mm
- Weight 827 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Gary Hatfield draws together his work on the science and philosophy of visual perception and cognition, including spatial perception, colour perception and qualia, object perception, the structure of conscious experience, physiological reduction and the role of neuroscience, the history of theories of vision, and the status of introspective methods.
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How do we see? This question has fascinated and perplexed philosophers and scientists for millennia. In visual perception, mind and world meet, when light reflected from objects enters the eyes and stimulates the nerves leading to activity in the brain near the back of the head. This neural activity yields conscious experiences of a world in three dimensions, clothed in colors, and immediately recognized as (say) ground, sky, grass, trees, and friends. The visual brain also produces nonconscious representations that interact with other brain systems for perception and cognition and that help to regulate our visually guided actions. But how does all of this really work? The answers concern the physiology, psychology, and philosophy of visual perception and cognition. Gary Hatfield's essays address fundamental questions concerning, in Part I, the psychological processes underlying spatial perception and perception of objects; in Part II, psychological theories and metaphysical controversies about color perception and qualia; and, in Part III, the history and philosophy of theories of vision, including methodological controversies surrounding introspection and involving the relations between psychology and the fields of neuroscience and cognitive science. An introductory chapter provides a unified overview; an extensive reference list rounds out the volume.
Laudably, Hatfields work incorporates abundant experimental and theoretical details from scientific psychology. He excels at bringing those details into contact with abstract philosophical questions. Few philosophers attempt such a fine-grained interface with mainstream vision science.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Philosophy and Science of Visual Perception and Cognition Note on the Concept of Information in Perception
Part I. Foundational and Theoretical Issues in Perception and Cognition
Representation and Content in Some (Actual) Theories of Perception
Representation in Perception and Cognition: Task Analysis, Psychological Functions, and Rule Instantiation
Perception as Unconscious Inference
Representation and Constraints: The Inverse Problem and the Structure of Visual Space
On Perceptual Constancy
Getting Objects for Free (or Not): The Philosophy and Psychology of Object Perception
Part II. Color Perception and Qualia
Introduction
Color Perception and Neural Encoding: Does Matameric Matching Entail a Loss of Information?
Objectivity and Subjectivity Revisited: Color as a Psychobiological Property
Sense-Data and the Mind-Body Problem
The Reality of Qualia
Part III. History and Philosophy of Perceptual and Cognitive Psychology
Introduction
The Sensory Core and the Medieval Foundations of Early Modern Perceptual Theory. Postscript (2008) on Ibn al-Haytham's (Alhacen's) Theory of Vision
Attention in Early Scientific Psychology
Psychology, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science: Reflections on the History and Philosophy of Experimental Psychology
What Can the Mind Tell Us About the Brain? Psychology, Neurophysiology, and Constraint
Introspective Evidence in Psychology
