Surfaces / Avrum Stroll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stroll, Avrum, 1921-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surfaces (Philosophy).

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Provides novel answers to two age-old philosophical problems—the epistemological problem of how perception is able to generate knowledge, and the metaphysical problem of what it is that we perceive.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I. What Are Surfaces?

Chapter 1. Introduction

1. Where Are the Edges?

2. Surfaces and the External World

3. Additional Puzzles

4. Plan of the Book: Substance and Methodology

Chapter 2. What Are Surfaces?

1. Talk about Marbles

2. Two Necessary Truths about Surfaces

3. More Complicated Cases

4. On Things That Don't Have Surfaces

5. Some Preliminary Results

Chapter 3. Two, Maybe Four, Conceptions of Surfaces

1. Leonardo Surfaces

2. Another Conception of Surfaces as Abstractions

3. P-Surfaces

4. Somorjai Surfaces and the Scientific Conception

5. How the OS and SS Conceptions Differ

6. A-Surfaces and P-Surfaces

Part II. Surfaces and Perception

Chapter 4. Direct Realism

1. Knowledge, Perception, and Surfaces

2. Is It Possible to See Something without Seeing Its Surface?

3. Can One See the Surface of X without Seeing X?

4. Is Talk about P-Surfaces Otiose?

5. Magnification and Resolution

6. A Second Type of Case

7. What Is Wrong with the Traditional Theories?

Chapter 5. On Seeing More Than Something's Surface

1. The Blocking Role of Surfaces

2. Three Contrasts

3. Three Theories

Chapter 6. Clarke's Argument

1. Seeing as a Unit Concept

2. Is the HM Fact Spurious?

3. Four Criticisms of Clarke's Argument

Chapter 7. Gibson's Ecological Approach

1. Gibson and the Philosophical Tradition

2. Gibson's Ecological Account

3. Gibson's Theory of Vision

4. Assessment of Gibson

Chapter 8. Piecemeal Realism

1. Realism and Direct Realism

2. The Contemporary Scene: Direct vs. Representative Realism

3. Intermediaries

4. Directly and Indirectly

5. Scratching Directly and Seeing Directly

6. Seeing Indirectly: The Problem of "Other Faces

7. Seeing in Normal Circumstances.

8. Piecemeal Realism

Part III. The Geometry of Ordinary Speech

Chapter 9. Surfaces and Faces

1. Regrouping

2. Five Shared Characteristics

3. That Latin Connection Reconsidered

4. A Rather Surprising Conclusion

Chapter 10. Boundaries

1. Embodiment and Representation

2. The Geometry of Ordinary Speech

3. Linear Extensions and Spreads

4. A Question Answered

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8288-7

0-8166-1694-9

OCLC:

230204667