Perception, Hallucination and Illusion

Zusatztext Fish's core thesis is that the phenomenal character of any visual experience- in so far as it has one-consists in being acquainted with mind-independent facts. Fish's central contentions are clearly and carefully presented, their motivations and challenges even-handedly laid out, and interesting responses to the latter are offered. His view is illuminatingly placed in relation to recent discussions in the philosophy of perceptionEL Fish's book is recommended to anyone interested in disjunctivism for providing, in a reader-friendly format, both an introduction to the state of the art in the disjunctivist approach, and a stimulating version of it. Informationen zum Autor William Fish is Lecturer in Philosophy at Massey University, New Zealand. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Naïve Realism: The Theory and its Motivations 2: Naïve Realism: Past and Future 3: Perception 4: Hallucination 5: Consciousness and the Brain 6: Illusion

Product details

• Authors: William Fish
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2009
• EAN: 9780195381344
• ISBN: 978-0-19-538134-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Philosophy of Mind Series; Philosophy of Mind (Hardcover); Philosophy of Mind Series; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Mind (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, Kognitivismus, kognitive Theorie, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Psychology: states of consciousness, Neurosciences, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, States Of Consciousness