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Papers presented at Simon Fraser University and solicited for this text focus on fundamental questions about the nature of visual perception, specifically concerning the form and content of visual representations.

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Author:   Elizabeth Akins (Professor . Department of Philosophy, Professor . Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Volume:   No.5
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.707kg
ISBN:  

9780195084610

ISBN 10:   0195084616
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   25 April 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

1: Kathleen A. Akins: Introduction 2: Kirk Ludwig: Explaining Why Things Look the Way They Do 3: Paul M. Churchland: A Feedforward Network for Fast Stereo Vision 4: John Grimes: On the Failure to Detect Changes in Scenes Across Seccades 5: Dana Ballard: On the Function of Visual Representation 6: P.S. Churchland and V.S.Ramachandran: Filling In: Why Dennett is Wrong 7: Daniel C. Dennett: Seeing is Believing--Or Is It? 8: Kathleen A. Akins and Steven Winger: Ships in the Night: Churchland and Ramachandran on Dennett's Theory of Consciousness 9: Brian P. McLaughlin: Lewis on What Distinguishes Perception from Hallucination 10: Frances Egan: Intentionality and the Theory of Vision 11: Sarah Patterson: Success-Orientation and Individualism in Marr's Theory of Vision 12: John Haugeland: Objective Perception 13: John M. Henderson: Visual Attention and the Attention-Action Interface 14: C. Randy Gallistel: The Perception of Time

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