Seeing dark things the philosophy of shadows

Seeing Dark Things uses visual riddles to explore our ability to see shadows, silhouettes, and black birds--plus some things that are only metaphorically "dark" such as holes. These dark things are anomalies for the causal theory of perception which states that anything we see must be a ca...

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Main Author: Roy, Sorensen
Other Authors: Roy Sorensen
Language:Undetermined
English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2008
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh
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Summary:Seeing Dark Things uses visual riddles to explore our ability to see shadows, silhouettes, and black birds--plus some things that are only metaphorically "dark" such as holes. These dark things are anomalies for the causal theory of perception which states that anything we see must be a cause of what we see. This orthodoxy successfully explains why you see the front of this page rather than its rear. However, the causal theory has trouble explaining how you manage to see the black letters on this page. The letters are made visible by the light they fail to reflect rather than the light they reflect
Physical Description:xiii, 310 p.
ill.
22 cm
ISBN:0195326571
9780195326574