عنوان

Seeing, doing, and knowing: a philosophical theory of sense perception

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eng

عنوان اصلي

Seeing, doing, and knowing: a philosophical theory of sense perception

خط فهرست نويسي و خط اصلي شناسه

Seeing, Doing, and Knowing is an original and comprehensive philosophical treatment of sense perception as it is currently investigated by cognitive neuroscientists. Its central theme is the task-oriented specialization of sensory systems across the biological domain. 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 - colours, 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. Sensory classification schemes are purpose-built to serve the knowledge-gathering and pragmatic needs of particular types of organisms. They are specialized: a bee or a bird does not see exactly what a human does.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Oxford

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Clarendon

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2005

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xxii, 362 p.: ill.; 24 cm.

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references )p. ]336[-350( and index

متن يادداشت

ISBN: 9780199204281

متن يادداشت

Mohan Matthen

متن يادداشت

1

متن يادداشت

The sensory classification thesis -- Sensory classification : the viewpoint from psychology -- Sensory concepts -- The sensory ordering thesis -- The sources of sensory similarity -- Perceptual specialization and the definition of colour -- The disunity of colour -- Pluralistic realism -- Sensing and doing -- Sense experience -- The semantic theory of colour experience -- Visual objects -- Visual reference

عنصر شناسه ای

، Senses and sensation

عنصر شناسه ای

، Sense )Philosophy(

شماره رده

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عنصر شناسه اي

Matthen, Mohan

کد نقش

AU

عنصر شناسه اي

TI