1st Edition

Analysis Of Perception

By Smythies, J R Copyright 1956
156 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

This is Volume XIX of twenty-one in the Cognitive Psychology series. First published in 1956, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of perception. The author takes a representationalist view and disposes of the theory of projected sensations. Adopting Bertrand Russell’s idea of physical and perceptual worlds, proceeds to discuss the possible geometries of their mutual relations.... Read more
Chapter 1 The Representative Theory of Perception; Chapter 2 The Genesis of the Visual Field; Chapter 3 The Status of Somatic Sense-Data; Chapter 4 Veridical and Hallucinatory Sense-Experience; Chapter 5 12nd Edition, revised 1950; Chapter 6 The Status of Mind in Sherrington’s Philosophy;

Biography

J. R. Smythies