Seeing things as they are : a theory of perception / John R. Searle.
Seeing things as they are : a theory of perception / John R. Searle.
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New York Oxford University Press, 2015.
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G 2016/1857
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xi, 240 pages, 4 pages unumbered plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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volume
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ch. 1 The Bad Argument: One of the Biggest Mistakes in Philosophy in the Past Several Centuries -- I.A Small Fallacy and a Large Mistake -- II.Digression About Intentionality and Phenomenology -- III.Direct Realism -- IV.Objectivity and Subjectivity -- V.Diagrams of Visual Perception -- VI.The Argum...
2.Features of Consciousness -- 3.Some Mistaken Accounts of Consciousness in Perception -- ch. 2 The Intentionality of Perceptual Experiences -- I.Skepticism about the Intentionality of Perception -- II.Special Features of Perceptual Intentionality -- III.Vision and Background: You Have to Learn How...
IV.The Structure of the Subjective Visual Field -- V.The Hierarchical Structure of Visual Perception -- VI.How Do the Phenomenological Features of the Subjective Visual Field Determine the Conditions of Satisfaction of the Visual Experience? -- VII.My Current View -- VIII.The Role of Presentational...
Objection 1 Commonality Implies the Negation of Naive Realism -- Reply to Objection 1 -- Continuation of Reply to Objection 1: The Elements of the Perceptual Situation -- Objection 2 A Disjunctive Argument for Disjunctivism -- Reply to Objection 2 -- Objection 3 The Epistemic Argument -- Reply to Ob...
II.Phenomenalism, Idealism, and the Representative Theory of Perception -- III.Refutation of the Representative Theory of Perception -- IV.Refutation of Phenomenalism -- V.The Classical Theories and the Philosophical Problem of Perception -- VI.Primary and Secondary Qualities.
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New York Oxford University Press, 2015.
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New York (State)
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2015.
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This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual experience. With special emphasis on vision Searle explains how the raw phenomenology of perception sets the content and the conditions of satisfaction of experience. The central question concerns the relation between the subjective conscious perceptual field and the obj...
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Seeing things as they are : a theory of perception / John R. Searle.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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G 2016/1857
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74VKVpQBRg0y
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0199385157 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780199385157 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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121/.34
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991023988310702626