Space-Perception and the Philosophy of Science

Space-Perception and the Philosophy of Science
Author: Patrick A. Heelan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 1983
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0520057392

Drawing on the phenomenological tradition in the philosophy of science and philosophy of nature, Patrick Heelan concludes that perception is a cognitive, world-building act, and is therefore never absolute or finished.

Space-Perception and the Philosophy of Science

Space-Perception and the Philosophy of Science
Author: Patrick A. Heelan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2023-07-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0520908090

Drawing on the phenomenological tradition in the philosophy of science and philosophy of nature, Patrick Heelan concludes that perception is a cognitive, world-building act, and is therefore never absolute or finished.

Spatial Senses

Spatial Senses
Author: Tony Cheng
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2021-06-30
Genre: Perception (Philosophy)
ISBN: 9781032092195

This collection of essays brings together research on sense modalities in general and spatial perception in particular in a systematic and interdisciplinary way. It updates a long-standing philosophical fascination with this topic by incorporating theoretical and empirical research from cognitive science, neuroscience, and psychology. The book is divided thematically to cover a wide range of established and emerging issues. Part I covers notions of objectivity and subjectivity in spatial perception and thinking. Part II focuses on the canonical distal senses, such as vision and audition. Part III concerns the chemical senses, including olfaction and gustation. Part IV discusses bodily awareness, peripersonal space, and touch. Finally, the volume concludes with Part V on multimodality. Spatial Senses is an important contribution to the scholarly literature on the philosophy of perception that takes into account important advances in the sciences.

Philosophy of Olfactory Perception

Philosophy of Olfactory Perception
Author: Andreas Keller
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2017-01-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319336452

This book reconsiders the major current topics in the philosophy of perception using olfaction as the paradigm sense. The author reveals how many of the most basic concepts of philosophy of perception are based on peculiarities of visual perception not found in other modalities, and addresses how different the philosophy of perception would be if based on olfaction. The book addresses several aspects of olfaction, including perceptual qualities, percepts, olfaction and cognitive processes, and consciousness. The first part of the book considers perception with respect to its ability to guide behaviors and to make information available to cognitive processes. The author continues by addressing the differences between conscious and non-conscious olfactory perception, and presents an argument for an important role of attention in conscious processes. The book concludes by discussing the function of conscious brain processes and their link to guiding behaviors in complex situations.

Colour Vision

Colour Vision
Author: Evan Thompson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1995
Genre: Cognition
ISBN: 9780415077170

Thompson provides an accessible review of the current scientific and philosophical discussions of colour vision and is vital reading for all cognitive scientists and philosophers whose interests touch upon this central area.Colour fascinates all of us, and scientists and philosophers have sought to understand the true nature of colour vision for many years. In recent times, investigations into colour vision have been one of the success stories of cognitive science, for each discipline within the field - neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, computer science and artificial intelligence, and philosophy - has contributed significantly to our understanding of colour. Evan Thompson's book is a major contribution to this interdisciplinary project.Colour Vision provides an accessible review of the current scientific and philosophical discussions of colour vision. Thompson steers a course between the subjective and objective positions on colour, arguing for a relational account. This account develops a novel 'ecological' approach to colour vision in cognitive science and the philosophy of perception. It is vital reading for all cognitive scientists and philosophers whose interests touch upon this central area.

The Sense of Space

The Sense of Space
Author: David Morris
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0791484599

The Sense of Space brings together space and body to show that space is a plastic environment, charged with meaning, that reflects the distinctive character of human embodiment in the full range of its moving, perceptual, emotional, expressive, developmental, and social capacities. Drawing on the philosophies of Merleau-Ponty and Bergson, as well as contemporary psychology to develop a renewed account of the moving, perceiving body, the book suggests that our sense of space ultimately reflects our ethical relations to other people and to the places we inhabit.

Visual Space Perception

Visual Space Perception
Author: Maurice Hershenson
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1999
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780262581677

A renewed interest in the study of vision has attracted scholars from such diverse fields as neuroscience, computer science, mathematics, physics and philosophy. At the same time, the development of imaging devices and popularization of stereoscopic effects has increased student interest in vision. This primer provides an overview of the principles of space perception in a handbook format that should appeal to researchers as well as students. Topics covered include geometrical and distal-proximal relationships, spatial localization, stereopsis, cyclopean perception, stimulus inadequacy, pictorial cues, perceived size and shape, Gibsonian psychophysics, lateral motion, motion in depth, perceived object motion, and motion detection.

Living as a Bird

Living as a Bird
Author: Vinciane Despret
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2021-09-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1509547282

In the first days of spring, birds undergo a spectacular metamorphosis. After a long winter of migration and peaceful coexistence, they suddenly begin to sing with all their might, varying each series of notes as if it were an audiophonic novel. They cannot bear the presence of other birds and begin to threaten and attack them if they cross a border, which might be invisible to human eyes but seems perfectly tangible to birds. Is this display of bird aggression just a pretence, a game that all birds play? Or do birds suddenly become territorial – and, if so, why? By attending carefully to the ways that birds construct their worlds and ornithologists have tried to understand them, Despret sheds fresh light on the activities of both and, at the same time, enables us to become more aware of the multiple worlds and modes of existence that characterize the planet we share in common with birds and other species.

Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh’s Eyes, and God

Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh’s Eyes, and God
Author: B.E. Babich
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401717672

This richly textured book bridges analytic and hermeneutic and phenomenological philosophy of science. It features unique resources for students of the philosophy and history of quantum mechanics and the Copenhagen Interpretation, cognitive theory and the psychology of perception, the history and philosophy of art, and the pragmatic and historical relationships between religion and science.

Phenomenology and Indian Philosophy

Phenomenology and Indian Philosophy
Author: D. P. Chattopadhyaya
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0791498824

This book shows the close relation between the phenomenology of the West and the phenomenological approach taken by Indian thinkers, both classical and modern. It illustrates that the underlying spirit of phenomenology and hermeneutics has been consciously followed by Indian philosophers for centuries and is not peculiar to Western thinkers. It also shows that Edmund Husserl and K. C. Bhattacharyya were aware of these parallel trends of thought. Phenomenology and Indian Philosophy addresses not only the basic theme of phenomenology, but its aesthetic, social, psychological, scientific, and technological aspects as well.