Visual phenomenology /

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Author / Creator:Madary, Michael, author.
Imprint:Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
©2017
Description:xii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10949350
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ISBN:9780262035453
0262035456
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Part I.
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. The Main Argument
  • 1.2. The Sandwich or the Cycle?
  • 1.3. Same Strategy, Different Results
  • 2. Three Constraints
  • 2.1. Visual Experience Is Perspectival
  • 2.2. Visual Experience Is Temporal
  • 2.3. Visual Experience Is Indeterminate
  • 2.4. Thesis AF and the Three Constraints
  • 3. Anticipation and Fulfillment
  • 3.1. (PC) and Siegel's Doll
  • 3.2. (PC) and Five Points about Anticipation
  • 3.3. Variation in Perceptual Content
  • 3.4. Visual Anticipation and Two Distinctions
  • 3.5. Summary
  • 4. The Question of Content
  • 4.1. Introducing AF Content
  • 4.2. Alternative Theories of Content and Their Shortcomings
  • 4.3. On the Denial of Perceptual Content
  • 4.4. Four Problems and Three Solutions
  • 4.5. Summary
  • Part II.
  • 5. Some Perceptual Psychology
  • 5.1. Various Strands of Support
  • 5.2. Rejecting the Myth of Full Detail
  • 5.3. The Importance of Action
  • 5.4. Facing the Resistance
  • 5.5. Visual Attention
  • 5.6. Objections and Replies
  • 5.7. Summary
  • 6. The Active Brain
  • 6.1. Ongoing Cortical Dynamics
  • 6.2. Neural Feedback
  • 6.3. Theoretical Options
  • 6.4. Summary
  • 7. The Dorsal Stream and the Visual Horizon
  • 7.1. Visual Consciousness and the Two Streams
  • 7.2. Introducing the Visual Horizon
  • 7.3. Input to the Dorsal Stream
  • 7.4. Localized Damage and Illusions
  • 7.5. Disturbances of Visual Motion
  • 7.6. Computational Models of Dorsal Anticipation
  • Part III.
  • 8. The Convergence
  • 8.1. Back to the Main Argument
  • 8.2. The Best of Both Worlds-Symbolic Dynamics
  • 8.3. Do We Need Internal Representations?
  • 9. Seeing Our World
  • 9.1. AF Content Is of a Shared Social World
  • 9.2. Empirical Support
  • 9.3. Embedded Rationality
  • Appendix: Husserl's Phenomenology
  • A.1. Finding AF in Husserl
  • A.2. Descriptive Psychology or Transcendental Phenomenology?
  • A.3. Phenomenology and the Sciences of the Mind
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index