[PDF] Science Perception And Reality eBook

Author : Wilfrid Sellars
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 1997-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674251540

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The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First published in essay form in 1956, it helped bring about a sea change in analytic philosophy. It broke the link, which had bound Russell and Ayer to Locke and Hume--the doctrine of "knowledge by acquaintance." Sellars' attack on the Myth of the Given in Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind was a decisive move in turning analytic philosophy away from the foundationalist motives of the logical empiricists and raised doubts about the very idea of "epistemology." With an introduction by Richard Rorty to situate the work within the history of recent philosophy, and with a study guide by Robert Brandom, this publication of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind makes a difficult but indisputably significant figure in the development of analytic philosophy clear and comprehensible to anyone who would understand that philosophy or its history.

Author : Donald Hoffman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393254704

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Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. From examining why fashion designers create clothes that give the illusion of a more “attractive” body shape to studying how companies use color to elicit specific emotions in consumers, and even dismantling the very notion that spacetime is objective reality, The Case Against Reality dares us to question everything we thought we knew about the world we see.

Author : Maureen F. McHugh
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250759757

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"Yellow and the Perception of Reality" by Maureen McHugh is a science fiction story about a woman who delves into the mystery of why and how her twin sister, a physicist, has been brain damaged in a lab accident in which two of her colleagues died. I wear yellow when I go to see my sister. There’s not a lot of yellow at the rehab facility; it’s all calm blues and neutrals. I like yellow—it looks good on me—but I wear it because Wanda is smart and she’s figured it out. She knows it’s me now when she sees the yellow. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Wilfrid Sellars
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674024984

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Sellars (1912-1989) was, in the opinion of many, the most important American philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century. This collection, coedited by Sellars's chief interpreter and intellectual heir, should do much to elucidate and clearly establish the significance of this difficult thinker's vision for contemporary philosophy.

Author : Patrick A. Heelan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520908090

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Drawing on the phenomenological tradition in the philosophy of science and philosophy of nature, Patrick Heelan concludes that perception is a cognitive, world-building act, and is therefore never absolute or finished.