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Seeing dark things : the philosophy of shadows / Roy Sorensen.

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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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