The Geometry Of Vision And The Mind Body Problem
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Author | : Robert E. French |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
This book focuses on the philosophy of perception with particular emphasis on the geometry of phenomenal visual space and mind body issues concerning the relationships between that space and neural activity in the brain. The contents include a detailed attack on naive realism and a defense of the causal theory of perception, along with analyses of both the topology and metric structure of visual space. It is shown how a variable curvature geometry for visual space can account for phenomenal visual depth perception, and an extension of that analysis is given to the other sense systems. The final chapter defends the claim that the conscious mind is a spatial entity, but still questions whether a physicalist reduction can be made of it to activity in the brain.
Author | : Robert E. French |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Mind and body |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark Wagner |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1136871853 |
When most people think of space, they think of physical space. However, visual space concerns space as consciously experienced, and it is studied through subjective measures, such as asking people to use numbers to estimate perceived distances, areas, angles, or volumes. This book explores the mismatch between perception and physical reality, and describes the many factors that influence the perception of space including the meaning assigned to geometric concepts like distance, the judgment methods used to report the experience, the presence or absence of cues to depth, and the orientation of a stimulus with respect to point of view. The main theme of the text is that no single geometry describes visual space, but that the geometry of visual space depends upon the stimulus conditions and mental shifts in the subjective meaning of size and distance. In addition, The Geometries of Visual Space: *contains philosophical, mathematical, and psychophysical background material; *looks at synthetic approaches to space perception including work on hyperbolic, spherical, and Euclidean geometries; *presents a meta-analysis of studies that ask observers to directly estimate size, distance, area, angle, and volume; *looks at the size constancy literature in which observers are asked to adjust a comparison stimulus to match a variety of standards at different distances away; *discusses research that takes a multi-dimensional approach toward studying visual space; and *discusses how spatial experience is influenced by memory. While this book is primarily intended for scholars in perception, mathematical psychology, and psychophysics, it will also be accessible to a wider audience since it is written at a readable level. It will make a good graduate-level textbook on space perception.
Author | : G. S. Rousseau |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 503 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0520910435 |
The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in a variety of Enlightenment contexts—science, medicine, philosophy, literature, and everyday society. No other recent book provides such an in-depth, suggestive resource for philosophers, literary critics, intellectual and social historians, and all who are interested in Enlightenment studies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in
Author | : Steven Pinker |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 673 |
Release | : 2009-06-02 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0393334775 |
Explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and ponder the mysteries of life.
Author | : Gary Hatfield |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2012-06-21 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0199597278 |
Many of us have been fascinated by visual illusions at some point, and have asked ourselves why something can look like one thing when it is fact something else. How can we perceive two different things, when the light coming into our eyes stays constant? This book brings together psychologists and philosophers to explore this aspect of vision.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2122 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jacob Gould Schurman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Electronic journals |
ISBN | : |
An international journal of general philosophy.
Author | : Richard Hartley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2004-03-25 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1139449141 |
A basic problem in computer vision is to understand the structure of a real world scene given several images of it. Techniques for solving this problem are taken from projective geometry and photogrammetry. Here, the authors cover the geometric principles and their algebraic representation in terms of camera projection matrices, the fundamental matrix and the trifocal tensor. The theory and methods of computation of these entities are discussed with real examples, as is their use in the reconstruction of scenes from multiple images. The new edition features an extended introduction covering the key ideas in the book (which itself has been updated with additional examples and appendices) and significant new results which have appeared since the first edition. Comprehensive background material is provided, so readers familiar with linear algebra and basic numerical methods can understand the projective geometry and estimation algorithms presented, and implement the algorithms directly from the book.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 746 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Dissertations, Academic |
ISBN | : |