Lectures on perception : an ecological perspective

Author(s)

• Turvey, Michael T.

Bibliographic Information

Lectures on perception : an ecological perspective

Michael T. Turvey

Routledge, 2019

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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, the ability to perceive things in the sense of how to get about among them and what to do, or not to do, with them. The book's core thesis breaks from the conventional interpretation of perception as a form of abduction based on innate hypotheses and acquired knowledge, and from the historical scientific focus on the perceptual abilities of animals, most especially those abilities ascribed to humankind. Specifically, it advances the thesis of perception as a matter of laws and principles at nature's ecological scale, and gives equal theoretical consideration to the perceptual achievements of all of the classically defined 'kingdoms' of organisms-Archaea, Bacteria, Protoctista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Part 1: Foundational Concepts What Kinds of Systems Do We Study? Organism-Environment Dualism Direct Perceiving, Indirect Perceiving Simulative, Projective and Locality Assumptions The Mechanistic Hypothesis The Cartesian Program Empiricism and the Man in the Inner Room The Space Enigmas I: Berkeley The Space Enigmas II: Kant, the Nature of Geometry, and the Geometry of Nature The Space Enigmas III: Local Signs and Geometrical Empiricism Doctrines of Sensations and Unconscious Inferences The Space Enigmas. IV: On Learning Space Perception Gestaltism I: Atomism, Anatomism and Mechanistic Order Gestalt Theory II: Fields, Self-organization, and the Invariance Postulate of Evolution Gestalt Theory III: Experience Error, CNS Error, Psycho-neural Isomorphism, Behavioral Environment Part 2: Computational-Representational Perspective The Computational-Representational Perspective: Preliminaries Pattern Recognition and Representation Bearers Turing Reductionism, Token Physicalism: The Computational System Assumption Reflections on the Physical Symbol System Hypothesis Part 3: Ecological Perspective Ecology: The Science that Reasons Why Barriers to Ecological Realism Ontology at the Ecological Scale Ecological Optics Primer Perceiving "How to Get About Among Things" The Mechanical Basis for "Getting About Among Things" Strong Anticipation and Direct Perception

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Details

• NCID: BB27237191
• ISBN:
  • 9781138335264
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 432 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 153.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Perception