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Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective book cover

1st Edition

Lectures on Perception An Ecological Perspective

By Michael T. Turvey Copyright 2019
446 Pages
by Routledge

446 Pages
by Routledge

446 Pages
by Routledge
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Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective addresses the generic principles by which each and every kind of life form—from single celled organisms (e.g., difflugia) to multi-celled organisms (e.g., primates)—perceives the circumstances of their living so that they can behave adaptively. It focuses on the fundamental ability that relates each and every organism to its surroundings, namely,... Read more

Table of Contents

Part 1:　Foundational Concepts

  1. What Kinds of Systems Do We Study?

  2. Organism-Environment Dualism

  3. Direct Perceiving, Indirect Perceiving

  4. Simulative, Projective and Locality Assumptions

  5. The Mechanistic Hypothesis

  6. The Cartesian Program

  7. Empiricism and the Man in the Inner Room

  8. The Space Enigmas I: Berkeley

  9. The Space Enigmas II: Kant, the Nature of Geometry, and the Geometry of Nature

  10. The Space Enigmas III: Local Signs and Geometrical Empiricism

  11. Doctrines of Sensations and Unconscious Inferences

  12. The Space Enigmas. IV: On Learning Space Perception

  13. Gestaltism I: Atomism, Anatomism and Mechanistic Order

  14. Gestalt Theory II: Fields, Self-organization, and the Invariance Postulate of Evolution

  15. Gestalt Theory III: Experience Error, CNS Error, Psycho-neural Isomorphism, Behavioral Environment

    16. Part 2:　Computational-Representational Perspective

  16. The Computational-Representational Perspective: Preliminaries

  17. Pattern Recognition and Representation Bearers

  18. Turing Reductionism, Token Physicalism: The Computational System Assumption

  19. Reflections on the Physical Symbol System Hypothesis

    20. Part 3:　Ecological Perspective

  20. Ecology: The Science that Reasons Why

  21. Barriers to Ecological Realism

  22. Ontology at the Ecological Scale

  23. Ecological Optics Primer

  24. Perceiving "How to Get About Among Things"

  25. The Mechanical Basis for "Getting About Among Things"

  26. Strong Anticipation and Direct Perception

Biography

Michael T. Turvey is Board of Trustees' Distinguished Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Connecticut and a Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories in Connecticut. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and Catell Fellowships, the American Psychological Association Early Career Award, Fellow of Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP), Bernstein 2009 Prize in Motor Control, SEP Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Psychological Science Lifetime Mentor Award, and two honorary doctorates.

Michael Turvey is the leading exponent of a physical biology of intentional systems for all creatures great and nano. In these interwoven lectures, he charts a path to a thoroughly scientific psychology, grounded in philosophy, ecology, thermodynamics, and the theory of complex systems. Developed over the course of an esteemed career, Turvey’s radical vision (in the sense of going to the root) throws down the gauntlet for the next generation of students of perceiving, acting, and knowing.William H. Warren, Chancellor’s Professor of Cognitive Science, Brown University

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