Perceptual illusions : philosophical and psychological essays / edited by Clotilde Calabi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Calabi, Clotilde.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perception (Philosophy).

Perception.

Illusion (Philosophy).

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

xv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2012]

Summary:

Things often go awry. Indeed, things can go awry in our beliefs, our actions, our emotions, and, of course, our perceptions. According to one popular philosophical theory, when things go wrong in perception, discrepancies between the world and its appearance occur. Although objects in the world have certain properties, they nevertheless appear to have other properties. For example, they seem to have shapes that they do not; their manifest colors, sizes, and weights are not their actual ones; and their perceived locations are at odds with their real ones. However, the claim that illusions are discrepancies between the objects in the world and their appearances can be questioned on two grounds. On the one hand, notions of apparent and real property are not quite clear. On the other, myriad examples have been put forward to show that a discrepancy between an appearance and reality is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for a perception to count as illusory.

But the notion of perceptual illusion is something that the philosopher does not want to abandon. The authors contributing to this volume, while rejecting the idea that an illusion is a discrepancy of appearance and reality, think that illusions involve errors that produce some kind of inconsistency. And so, they argue, although the popular theory of perceptual illusions has gone awry, it can be amended. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I What Is an Illusion?

1 The Illusion of Visual Illusions / Robert Schwartz Schwartz, Robert 25

2 Illusions that We Should Have (but Don't) / Nicola Bruno Bruno, Nicola 44

3 The Awareness of Illusions / Elena Pasquinelli Pasquinelli, Elena 59

4 The Genesis of the Awareness of Illusion / Ugo Savardi Savardi, Ugo, Michael Kubovy Kubovy, Michael, Ivana Bianchi Bianchi, Ivana 75

Part II Veridical Perceptions

5 Perceptual Constancies: Illusions and Veridicality / Barry Maund Maund, Barry 87

6 Is the Moon Illusion an Illusion? / Helen E. Ross Ross, Helen E. 107

7 Cats! Michotte's New Enigma of Perception / Clotilde Calabi Calabi, Clotilde 124

Part III Do Pictures and Mirrors Fool the Eye?

8 Trompe l'aeil and the Nature of Pictures / Paolo Spinicci Spinicci, Paolo 145

9 Toward a Syncretistic Theory of Depiction (or How to Account for the Illusionist Aspect of Experiencing Pictures) / Alberto Voltolini Voltolini, Alberto 164

10 Mirrors, Illusions, and Epistemic Innocence / Roberto Casati Casati, Roberto 192

Part IV Other Errors: Recalcitrant Emotions and Misidentifications

11 Emotions, Perceptions, and Emotional Illusions / Christine Tappolet Tappolet, Christine 205

12 Perceptual Misrecognition: A Kind of Illusion? / Jérôme Dokic Dokic, Jérôme 223

13 Seeing Double: Illusions of Identity in Delusional Disorders / Philip Gerrans Gerrans, Philip 242.

Notes:

Contains bibliographical references (pages [260]-276) and index.

ISBN:

9780230347908

0230347908

OCLC:

748328787