Seeing, doing, and knowing a philosophical theory of sense perception

Sensory systems are automatic sorting machines; they engage in a process of classification. Human vision sorts and orders external objects in terms of a specialized, proprietary scheme of categories -- colors, shapes, speeds and directions of movement, etc. This "Sensory Classification Thesis&q...

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Autor principal: Matthen, Mohan
Altres autors: Mohan Matthen
Idioma:Undetermined
English
Publicat: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2007
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Sumari:Sensory systems are automatic sorting machines; they engage in a process of classification. Human vision sorts and orders external objects in terms of a specialized, proprietary scheme of categories -- colors, shapes, speeds and directions of movement, etc. This "Sensory Classification Thesis" implies that sensation is not a naturally caused image from which an organism must infer the state of the world beyond; it is more like an internal communication, a signal concerning the state of the world issued by a sensory system, in accordance with internal conventions, for the use of an organism's other systems. This is why sensory states are both easily understood and persuasive
Descripció física:xxii, 362 p.
ill.
24 cm
ISBN:0199204284
9780199204281