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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| Ngôn ngữ: | Undetermined English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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| 245 | 4 | |b the philosophy of shadows | |
| 245 | 0 | |c Roy Sorensen | |
| 260 | |a New York | ||
| 260 | |b Oxford University Press | ||
| 260 | |c 2008 | ||
| 300 | |a xiii, 310 p. | ||
| 300 | |b ill. | ||
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| 520 | |a 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 | ||
| 650 | |a Perception (Philosophy); Shades and shadows; Causation | ||
| 700 | |a Roy Sorensen | ||
| 980 | |a Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh | ||