Seeing dark things the philosophy of shadows
Shadows appear to be counterexamples to the causal theory of perception. After all, an absence of light cannot reflect light into our eyes. Roy Sorensen sets out to resolve this anomaly and to show how the causal theory solves a broad range of visual puzzles about dark things.
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oxford u.a.
Oxford Univ. Press
2008
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Shadows appear to be counterexamples to the causal theory of perception. After all, an absence of light cannot reflect light into our eyes. Roy Sorensen sets out to resolve this anomaly and to show how the causal theory solves a broad range of visual puzzles about dark things. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIII, 310 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780195326574 978-0-19-532657-4 |