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Loại CSDL: Sách in
Tác giả: Roy, Sorensen
Thông tin xb: New York: Oxford University Press, 2008
Ký hiệu xếp giá: 121.34 / R435
Mô tả vật lý: xiii, 310 p.: ill., 22 cm
Nhóm chủ đề: Perception (Philosophy); Shades and shadows; Causation
Tóm tắt: Seeing Dark Things uses visual riddles to explore our ability to see shadows, silhouettes, and black birds--plus some things that are only metaphorically "dark" such as holes. These dark things are anomalies for the causal theory of perception which states that anything we see must be a cause of what we see. This orthodoxy successfully explains why you see the front of this page rather than its rear. However, the causal theory has trouble explaining how you manage to see the black letters on this ...

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