Perceptual Ephemera - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198722303 ISBN 13 : 9780198722304

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Most research on perception has focused on the perceptual experience of three-dimensional, solid, bounded, and coherent material objects - items like tables and tomatoes. But as well as having perceptual experience of such objects, we also experience such aspects of the world as, for instance, rainbows and surfaces, shadows and absences: things that are ephemeral by contrast with material objects. This book presents fifteen new essays on the perceptual experience of such ephemera. The editors' introduction provides a detailed guide to the topic as a whole, setting out the thematic background to this emerging area of research in contemporary philosophy of perception. The volume winds a path through the ephemeral, considering such topics as sounds, smells, transparency, reflection, camouflage, solidity, and ambient vision. A general aim of the volume is to make a case that the broad range of ephemera it catalogues is far from marginal, or insubstantial with respect to their philosophical interest and value. Philosophical attention to perceptul ephemera may well suggest novel routes to arriving at a more developed understanding of perceptual experience at large and its characteristic features.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Crowther is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His research interests are in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. His work mainly focuses on temporal ontology and the temporal aspects of experience.

Clare Mac Cumhaill is Lecturer in Philosophy at Durham University. Her research interests are in perception, action, emotion and aesthetics, with a special focus on space, spatial properties, and structural explanation more generally.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198722303
• ISBN 13: 9780198722304
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 354
• Éditeur: Crowther Thomas, Mac Cumhaill Clare
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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