Fish introduces the subject thematically, covering vision and other senses. He sets out the major theories together with their motivations and problems. While providing historical background to debates, the focus is on recent presentations and defenses of theories. This new edition includes two new chapters.
Fish introduces the subject thematically, covering vision and other senses. He sets out the major theories together with their motivations and problems. While providing historical background to debates, the focus is on recent presentations and defenses of theories. This new edition includes two new chapters.
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This book provides the first full-length treatment of disjunctivism about visual experiences in the service of defending a naive realist theory of veridical visual perception. It includes detailed theories of hallucination and illusion that show how such states can be indistinguishable from veridical experiences without sharing any common character.
From which detergent to buy to who we should vote for, we are constantly bombarded by reasons to believe or do something. Should we be persuaded? Should we find the reasons others give compelling? Everyone can benefit from a set of precision tools to use for evaluating reasoning. Written in an engaging style by two accessible philosophers, this book offers a handy critical-thinking toolbox for all areas of academic study, the workplace and dai...
Excerpt from Defence of Col. Wm. S. Fish, U. S. Army: Submitted by His Counsel, Milton Whitney, Esq.To these specifications, I propose to call your attention, and to the evidence bearing upon them in the order in which they are set forth in the pleadings upon the part of the prosecution.Before proceeding, however, to the discharge of this duty, I crave your indulgence whilst I brie¿y refer to some general propositions, growing out of my relati...
Excerpt from Memoir of Butler Wilmarth. M. D: One of the Victims of the Late Terrible Railroad Catastrophe at Norwalk Bridge, Ct, : With Extracts From His Correspondence and ManuscriptsHaving been thus highly esteemed by his friends and from the necessities of the case, having also been hastily buried, without a convenient opportunity for the preparation of a suitable Discourse for his.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of t...
Excerpt from Memoir of Butler Wilmarth. M. D: One of the Victims of the Late Terrible Railroad Catastrophe at Norwalk Bridge, Ct, : With Extracts From His Correspondence and ManuscriptsHaving been thus highly esteemed by his friends and from the necessities of the case, having also been hastily buried, without a convenient opportunity for the preparation of a suitable Discourse for his.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of t...
This book provides the first full-length treatment of disjunctivism about visual experiences in the service of defending a naïve realist theory of veridical visual perception. It includes detailed theories of hallucination and illusion that show how such states can be indistinguishable from veridical experiences without sharing any common character.
Excerpt from Defence of Col. Wm. S. Fish, U. S. Army: Submitted by His Counsel, Milton Whitney, Esq.
To these specifications, I propose to call your attention, and to the evidence bearing upon them in the order in which they are set forth in the pleadings upon the part of the prosecution.
Before proceeding, however, to the discharge of this duty, I crave your indulgence whilst I brie¿y refer to some general propositions, growing out of my re...
Sets out the major theories of perception together with their motivations and attendant problems. While providing historical background to debates in the field, this title focuses on presentations and defenses of the different theories, and looks beyond visual perception to take into account the role of other senses.