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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Tác giả chính: Matthen, Mohan
Tác giả khác: Mohan Matthen
Ngôn ngữ:Undetermined
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Được phát hành: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2007
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Tóm tắt: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
Mô tả vật lý:xxii, 362 p.
ill.
24 cm
số ISBN:0199204284
9780199204281