Visual phenomenology / Michael Madary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madary, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perception (Philosophy).

Visual perception.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017]

Summary:

"In this book, Michael Madary examines visual experience, drawing on both phenomenological and empirical methods of investigation. He finds that these two approaches--careful, philosophical description of experience and the science of vision--independently converge on the same result: Visual perception is an ongoing process of anticipation and fulfillment. Madary first makes the case for the descriptive premise, arguing that the phenomenology of vision is best described as on ongoing process of anticipation and fulfillment. He discusses visual experience as being perspectival, temporal, and indeterminate; considers the possibility of surprise when appearances do not change as we expect; and considers the content of visual anticipation. Madary then makes the case for the empirical premise, showing that there are strong empirical reasons to model vision using the general form of anticipation and fulfillment. He presents a range of evidence from perceptual psychology and neuroscience, and reinterprets evidence for the two-visual-systems hypothesis. Finally, he considers the relationship between visual perception and social cognition. An appendix discusses Husserlian phenomenology as it relates to the argument of the book. Madary argues that the fact that there is a convergence of historically distinct methodologies itself is an argument that supports his findings. With Visual Phenomenology, he creates an exchange between the humanities and the sciences that takes both methods of investigation seriously"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Part I

1 Introduction

1.1 The Main Argument

1.2 The Sandwich or the Cycle?

1.3 Same Strategy, Different Results

2 Three Constraints

2.1 Visual Experience Is Perspectival

2.2 Visual Experience Is Temporal

2.3 Visual Experience Is Indeterminate

2.4 Thesis AF and the Three Constraints

3 Anticipation and Fulfillment

3.1 (PC) and Siegel's Doll

3.2 (PC') and Five Points about Anticipation

3.3 Variation in Perceptual Content

3.4 Visual Anticipation and Two Distinctions

3.5 Summary

4 The Question of Content

4.1 Introducing AF Content

4.2 Alternative Theories of Content and Their Shortcomings

4.3 On the Denial of Perceptual Content

4.4 Four Problems and Three Solutions

4.5 Summary

Part II

5 Some Perceptual Psychology

5.1 Various Strands of Support

5.2 Rejecting the Myth of Full Detail

5.3 The Importance of Action

5.4 Facing the Resistance

5.5 Visual Attention

5.6 Objections and Replies

5.7 Summary

6 The Active Brain

6.1 Ongoing Cortical Dynamics

6.2 Neural Feedback

6.3 Theoretical Options

6.4 Summary

7 The Dorsal Stream and the Visual Horizon

7.1 Visual Consciousness and the Two Streams

7.2 Introducing the Visual Horizon

7.3 Input to the Dorsal Stream

7.4 Localized Damage and Illusions

7.5 Disturbances of Visual Motion

7.6 Computational Models of Dorsal Anticipation

Part III

8 The Convergence

8.1 Back to the Main Argument

8.2 The Best of Both Worlds-Symbolic Dynamics

8.3 Do We Need Internal Representations?

9 Seeing Our World

9.1 AF Content Is of a Shared Social World

9.2 Empirical Support

9.3 Embedded Rationality

Appendix: Husserl's Phenomenology

A.1 Finding AF in Husserl.

A.2 Descriptive Psychology or Transcendental Phenomenology?

A.3 Phenomenology and the Sciences of the Mind

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Appendix

References

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-34179-4

0-262-34178-6

OCLC:

968736228