The innocent eye : why vision is not a cognitive process / Nico Orlandi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orlandi, Nico, author.

Series:

Philosophy of mind.

Philosophy of mind

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vision--Philosophy.

Vision.

Visual perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 247 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Other Title:

Why vision is not a cognitive process

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'The Innocent Eye' develops a way of understanding vision inspired by recent literature in situated cognition. To explain why the world looks as it does, the book appeals to the structure of the environment in which we are situated and to our attunement to that environment. This approach contrasts with models of vision in cognitive science that treat visual processing as an `inference' or a `construction,' where representational resources are used to produce visual percepts. The main claim of the book is that this construction is both unnecessary and unsupported by the evidence.

Contents:

1. Vision is not a cognitive process

1.1 Introduction

1.2 The thesis

1.3 The argument

1.4 The context and the consequences

1.5 Conclusion

2 The Embedded View 67

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Embedded seeing

2.3 Natural scene statistics

2.4 Bayesian approaches to vision: neuro-centrism without representation

2.5 Conclusion

3 Representation and the issue of evidence

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Implicit representation

3.3 Beyond misrepresentation

3.4 Is this just terminology?

3.5 Representation

3.6 The evidence: s-representations

3.7 The evidence: p-representations

3.8 Conclusion

4 The explanatory power of the embedded view

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Stability

4.3 Constancy

4.4 Misperception

4.5 Visual illusion

4.6 Completion

4.7 Multistability

4.8 Semantic effects and cognitive penetrability

4.9 Conclusion

5 Computation

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Computation without representation

5.3 Seeing is not believing

5.4 Conclusion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 9, 2014).

ISBN:

0-19-937505-4