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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第一著者: Roy, Sorensen
その他の著者: Roy Sorensen
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English
出版事項: New York Oxford University Press 2008
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要約: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
物理的記述:xiii, 310 p.
ill.
22 cm
ISBN:0195326571
9780195326574