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Seeing dark things : the philosophy of shadows / Roy Sorensen.
LIBRA B828.45 .S66 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sorensen, Roy A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Perception (Philosophy).
- Shades and shadows.
- Causation.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- The eclipse riddle
- Seeing surfaces
- The disappearing act
- Spinning shadows
- Berkeley's shadow
- Para-reflections
- Para-refractions : shadowgrams and the black drop
- Goethe's colored shadows
- Filtows
- Holes in the light
- Black and blue
- Seeing in black and white
- We see in the dark
- Hearing silence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195326574
- 0195326571
- OCLC:
- 79256720
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