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Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception
edited by Alva Noë and Evan Thompson
Vision and Mind
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Vision and Mind
Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception
edited by
Alva Noë and Evan Thompson
A Bradford Book
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
© 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vision and mind : selected readings in the philosophy of perception / edited by Alva Noë
and Evan Thompson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-14078-0 (alk. paper)—ISBN 0-262-64047-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Perception (Philosophy) I. Noë, Alva. II. Thompson, Evan.
.V565 2002
121¢.34—dc21 2002023533
Contents
Preface vii
Sources ix
1 Introduction 1
Alva Noë and Evan Thompson
2 Selections from Phenomenology of Perception 15
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
3 Some Remarks about the Senses 35
H. P. Grice
4 The Intentionality of Sensation: A Grammatical Feature 55
G. E. M. be
5 A Theory of Direct Visual Perception 77
James J. Gibson
6 Perception and Its Objects 91
P. F. Strawson
7 Perceptions as Hypotheses 111
Richard L. Gregory
8 Veridical Hallucination and Prosthetic Vision 135
David Lewis
9 Perception, Vision and Causation 151
Paul Snowdon
10 How Direct Is Visual Perception?: Some Reflections on Gibson’s
“Ecological Approach” 167
Jerry A. Fodor and Zenon W. Pylshyn
vi Contents
11 Selections from Vision 229
David Marr
12 Sensation and the Content of Experience: A Distinction 267
Christopher Peacoc