|
Showing 1 - 10 of
10 matches in All Departments
This book combines approaches from philosophy, psychology, and
neuroscience in the study or perception. In addition to appealing
to readers from all three of these disciplines, Perception: The
Basics is a perfect introduction for students and general readers.
Its interdisciplinary coverage of all aspects of perception does
not require familiarity with either abstract philosophical concepts
or neuroscientific knowledge. Besides addressing the classic
questions of how perception works, the book highlights the
intricate connections between perception and action and on
perception that is not triggered by sensory input, like mental
imagery, dreaming, and hallucination. Further, the book balances
out an overemphasis on vision in the literature by giving almost
equal coverage to all the sense modalities (although some examples
are easier to present in visual form). Questions that are discussed
in detail include: What is the function of perception? Is
perception an unbiased way of learning about the world? What is the
difference between the different sense modalities, like seeing,
hearing, smelling, etc.? What is the connection between perception
and action? What is the relation between perception, mental
imagery, dreaming, and hallucination? With helpful chapter
summaries and a comprehensive final bibliography, Perception: The
Basics is sure to be the first-stop for anyone trying to better
understand this important area of interdisciplinary research.
This book combines approaches from philosophy, psychology, and
neuroscience in the study or perception. In addition to appealing
to readers from all three of these disciplines, Perception: The
Basics is a perfect introduction for students and general readers.
Its interdisciplinary coverage of all aspects of perception does
not require familiarity with either abstract philosophical concepts
or neuroscientific knowledge. Besides addressing the classic
questions of how perception works, the book highlights the
intricate connections between perception and action and on
perception that is not triggered by sensory input, like mental
imagery, dreaming, and hallucination. Further, the book balances
out an overemphasis on vision in the literature by giving almost
equal coverage to all the sense modalities (although some examples
are easier to present in visual form). Questions that are discussed
in detail include: What is the function of perception? Is
perception an unbiased way of learning about the world? What is the
difference between the different sense modalities, like seeing,
hearing, smelling, etc.? What is the connection between perception
and action? What is the relation between perception, mental
imagery, dreaming, and hallucination? With helpful chapter
summaries and a comprehensive final bibliography, Perception: The
Basics is sure to be the first-stop for anyone trying to better
understand this important area of interdisciplinary research.
This book provides an up-to-date and accessible overview of the
hottest and most influential contemporary debates in philosophy of
perception, written especially for this volume by many of the most
important philosophers of the field. The book addresses the
following key questions: Can perception be unconscious? What is the
relation between perception and attention? What properties can we
perceive? Are perceptual states representations? How is vision
different from the other sense modalities (like hearing or smell)?
How do these sense modalities interact with one another?
Contributors are Ned Block, Berit Brogaard, Alex Byrne, Robert
Kentridge, John Kulvicki, Heather Logue, Mohan Matthen, Bence
Nanay, Matt Nudds, Casey O'Callaghan, Adam Pautz, Ian Phillips,
Susanna Siegel and Wayne Wu.
This book provides an up-to-date and accessible overview of the
hottest and most influential contemporary debates in philosophy of
perception, written especially for this volume by many of the most
important philosophers of the field. The book addresses the
following key questions: Can perception be unconscious? What is the
relation between perception and attention? What properties can we
perceive? Are perceptual states representations? How is vision
different from the other sense modalities (like hearing or smell)?
How do these sense modalities interact with one another?
Contributors are Ned Block, Berit Brogaard, Alex Byrne, Robert
Kentridge, John Kulvicki, Heather Logue, Mohan Matthen, Bence
Nanay, Matt Nudds, Casey O'Callaghan, Adam Pautz, Ian Phillips,
Susanna Siegel and Wayne Wu.
Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of
art, beauty, and taste. It doesn't just consider traditional
artistic experiences such as artworks in a museum or an opera
performance, but also everyday experiences such as autumn leaves in
the park, or even just the light of the setting sun falling on the
kitchen table. It is also about your experience when you choose the
shirt you're going to wear today or when you wonder whether you
should put more pepper in the soup. Aesthetics is everywhere. It is
one of the most important aspects of our life. In this Very Short
Introduction Bence Nanay introduces the field of aesthetics,
considering both Western and non-Western aesthetic traditions, and
exploring why it is sometimes misunderstood or considered to be too
elitist - by artists, musicians, and even philosophers. As Nanay
shows, so-called 'high art' has no more claims on aesthetics than
sitcoms, tattoos, or punk rock. In fact, the scope of aesthetics
extends far wider than that of art, high or low, including much of
what we care about in life. It is not the job of aesthetics to tell
you which artworks are good and which ones are bad. It is not the
job of aesthetics to tell you what experiences are worth having. If
an experience is worth having for you, it thereby becomes the
subject of aesthetics. This realisation is important, because
thinking about aesthetics in this inclusive way opens up new ways
of understanding old questions about the social aspect of our
aesthetic engagements, and the importance of aesthetic values for
our own self. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series
from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost
every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to
get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine
facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make
interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
As the sunset swings into view, you think, "That's beautiful." You
take a bite of cake and you think, "Wow, that's sweet"-maybe too
sweet. You hear that new song and it blows you away. You play it
for your friends. The novel is wonderful, the movie disappoints,
the dress looked better in the store. Aesthetic Life and Why It
Matters offers three new answers to Socrates's great question about
how we should live that focus on the place of aesthetic engagement
in well-being. Three philosophers offer their perspectives on how
aesthetic commitments move us through the world and shape our
well-being, our sense of self, and our connections to others.
Aesthetic engagement is a site for achievement, it cultivates
individuality within a context of community, and it satisfies a
hunger for exploring our differences. A closing dialogue between
the authors probes some flash points in thinking about value:
disagreement, subjectivism, ethnocentrism, fads and fashions, and
ideology critique. Written in appealing prose, with vivid examples,
a comprehensive introduction, and suggestions for further reading,
the book is designed as a self-contained module in aesthetics for
introductory courses in philosophy.
As the sunset swings into view, you think, "That's beautiful." You
take a bite of cake and you think, "Wow, that's sweet"-maybe too
sweet. You hear that new song and it blows you away. You play it
for your friends. The novel is wonderful, the movie disappoints,
the dress looked better in the store. Aesthetic Life and Why It
Matters offers three new answers to Socrates's great question about
how we should live that focus on the place of aesthetic engagement
in well-being. Three philosophers offer their perspectives on how
aesthetic commitments move us through the world and shape our
well-being, our sense of self, and our connections to others.
Aesthetic engagement is a site for achievement, it cultivates
individuality within a context of community, and it satisfies a
hunger for exploring our differences. A closing dialogue between
the authors probes some flash points in thinking about value:
disagreement, subjectivism, ethnocentrism, fads and fashions, and
ideology critique. Written in appealing prose, with vivid examples,
a comprehensive introduction, and suggestions for further reading,
the book is designed as a self-contained module in aesthetics for
introductory courses in philosophy.
Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing
the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects.
But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated
conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to questions in
aesthetics, we can make real progress. The aim of this book is to
bring the discussion of aesthetics and perception together. Bence
Nanay explores how many influential debates in aesthetics look very
different, and may be easier to tackle, if we clarify the
assumptions they make about perception and about experiences in
general. The focus of Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception is the
concept of attention and the ways in which this concept and
especially the distinction between distributed and focused
attention can help us re-evaluate various key concepts and debates
in aesthetics. Sometimes our attention is distributed in an unusual
way: we are attending to one perceptual object but our attention is
distributed across its various properties. This way of experiencing
the world is special and it plays an important role in
characterizing a number of phenomena associated with aesthetics.
Some of these that the book talks about include picture perception
and depiction, aesthetic experiences, formalism, the importance of
uniqueness in aesthetics, and the history of vision debate. But
sometimes, in some aesthetic contexts, our attention is not at all
distributed, but very much focused. Nanay closes his argument with
an analysis of some paradigmatic aesthetic phenomena where our
attention is focused: identification and engagement with fictional
characters. And the conflict and interplay between distributed and
focused attention is an important feature of many artworks.
This volumes collects new essays by top philosophers, all on the
theme of perception while also making connections between
perception and other philosophical areas like epistemology,
metaphysics, and philosophy of action. Perception has become a
major area of philosophical interest, with a number of important
collections and monographs appearing recently. This may partly be
due to the growing use of empirical and neuroscientific data by
philosophers of mind. The contributors in this volume represent the
high quality of current scholars (many OUP authors) working in the
area, among them Jesse Prinz, Fred Dretske, Susanna Siegel, and
Benj Hellie. Some of the questions they raise include, What is the
object of perception? How can perception give rise to knowledge?
What is the link between perception and action? Between perception
and belief? How do we perceive colors? What do animals perceive?
How do empirical findings inform traditional philosophical thinking
about perception? Does perception represent the world? What are the
properties that are represented in perception? Nanay also provides
a detailed introduction surveying the state of the field. This
volume contains new work by some of the top figures in the field on
a broad topic of interest.
What mediates between sensory input and motor output? This is
probably the most basic question one can ask about the mind. There
is stimulation on your retina, something happens in your skull and
then you hand reaches out to grab the apple in front of you. What
is it that happens in between? What representations make it
possible for you to grab this apple? Bence Nanay calls these
representations that make it possible for you to grab the apple
'pragmatic representations'. In Between Perception and Action he
argues that pragmatic representations whose function is to mediate
between sensory input and motor output play an immensely important
role in our mental life. And they help us to explain why the vast
majority of what goes on in our mind is very similar to the simple
mental processes of animals. The human mind, like the mind of
non-human animals, has been selected for allowing us to perform
actions successfully. And the vast majority of our actions, like
the actions of non-human animals, could not be performed without
perceptual guidance. And what provides the perceptual guidance for
performing actions are pragmatic representations. If we accept this
framework, many classic questions in philosophy of perception and
of action will look very different. The aim of this book is to
trace the various consequences of this way of thinking about the
mind in a number of branches of philosophy as well as in psychology
and cognitive science.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|