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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 310 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-301) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781435620414 1435620410 9780199870271 0199870276 0199886792 9780199886791 1281165514 9781281165510 9786611165512 6611165517 0198043759 9780198043751 |