Perception and the Physical World: Psychological and Philosophical Issues in Perception - Hardcover

Heyer, Dieter; Mausfeld, Rainer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471491497 ISBN 13: 9780471491491

Verlag: Wiley, 2002

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The focus of this book is on conceptual and philosophical issues of perception including the classic notion of unconscious inferences in perception. The book consists of contributions from a group of internationally renowned researchers who spent a year together as distinguised fellows at the German Centre for Advanced Study.

Each chapter concludes with a lively, informative debate in the form of comments and replies from the contributors of the book.

? Contributors are of prominent international reputation
? Each chapter concludes with comments and replies from the contributors of the book to give informative debate
? The only book available to blend perception and philosophy in this fashion

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Dieter Heyer and Rainer Mausfeld are the authors of Perception and the Physical World: Psychological and Philosophical Issues in Perception, published by Wiley.

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• How can we conceive of the relation between the available sensory input and our perceptual achievement?
• Does our perceptual system exploit the sensory input in terms of innately determined knowledge of properties of the physical world?
• How can we use Bayesian principles to provide key insights into the scope and limits of perception?

Perception is at the interface of the mental and the physical. The process of perception cannot be understood as simply providing some kind of picture of the physical world; rather the perceptual system strongly relies on built-in interpretations and exhibits inference-like and constructive-like properties.

In Perception and the Physical World an international field of renowned experts in vision research, philosophy and ecological physics focus on foundational and conceptual issues concerning the nature of perception, particularly unconscious inference, and highlight recent advances in the field.

Psychologists and students of psychology, philosophy and artificial intelligence at both undergraduate and postgraduate level will find this book an essential resource.

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• How can we conceive of the relation between the available sensory input and our perceptual achievement?
• Does our perceptual system exploit the sensory input in terms of innately determined knowledge of properties of the physical world?
• How can we use Bayesian principles to provide key insights into the scope and limits of perception?

Perception is at the interface of the mental and the physical. The process of perception cannot be understood as simply providing some kind of picture of the physical world; rather the perceptual system strongly relies on built-in interpretations and exhibits inference-like and constructive-like properties.

In Perception and the Physical World an international field of renowned experts in vision research, philosophy and ecological physics focus on foundational and conceptual issues concerning the nature of perception, particularly unconscious inference, and highlight recent advances in the field.

Psychologists and students of psychology, philosophy and artificial intelligence at both undergraduate and postgraduate level will find this book an essential resource.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0471491497
• ISBN 13: 9780471491491
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 346
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