Perception, Realism and the Problem of Reference

Machamer Peter Raftopoulos Athanassios

ISBN 10: 0521198771 / ISBN 13: 9780521198776

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 2012

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• Titolo: Perception, Realism and the Problem of Reference
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521198771
• ISBN 13: 9780521198776
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

The chapters in the book address the problem of reference as it relates to perception and to debates about realism.

Informazioni sugli autori

Athanasios Raftopoulos is professor of Epistemology and Cognitive Science in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cyprus. He is the author of Cognition and Perception: How Do Psychology and the Neural Sciences Inform Philosophy (2009), editor of Cognitive Penetrability of Perception: Attention, Action, Planning, and Bottom-up Constraints (2005) and co-editor of Emergence and Transformation in the Mind: Modelling and Measuring Cognitive Change (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Peter Machamer is professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, Associate Director of Pittsburgh's Center for Philosophy of Science and a member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC). He is co-author, with J. E. McGuire, of Descartes' Changing Mind (2009). He is co-editor, with Gereon Wolters, of Interpretation (2010) and, with Michael Silberstein, of Blackwell's Guide to Philosophy of Science (2002).