Roy Sorensen

Seeing Dark Things

The Philosophy of Shadows

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Produktbeschreibung

Roy Sorensen here defends the causal theory of perception by treating absences as causes. He draws heavily on common sense and psychology to vindicate the assumption that we directly perceive absences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780199797134
• ISBN-10: 0199797137
• Artikelnr.: 33371704

Autorenporträt

Roy Sorensen is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of A Brief History of the Paradox, Vagueness and Contradiction, Pseudo-Problems, Thought Experiments, and Blindspots.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. The Eclipse Riddle
2. Seeing Surfaces
3. The Disappearing Act
4. Spinning Shadows
5. Berkeley's Shadow
6. Para-reflections
7. Para-reflections: Shadowgrams and the Black Drop
8. Goethe's Colored Shadows
9. Filtows
10. Holes in the Light
11. Black and Blue
12. Seeing in Black and White
13. We See in the Dark
14. Hearing Silence
References
Index