Visual Thought: The depictive space of perception (Advances in Consciousness Research)

Liliana Albertazzi ed.

ISBN 10: 9027252033 / ISBN 13: 9789027252036

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2006

About this Item

In a blue, laminated hardcover with yellow and white titles to spine and front. No dust jacket. 380 pp. with a number of black and white illustrations.

The book is in very good condition. There is minor shelf-wear to the extremities of the cover. The binding is tight and the pages clean and unmarked.

Gift Aid no. 11253. This item is being sold under the Retail Gift Aid scheme to support Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust. Gift Aid enables us to increase the value of donations by 25%. Amnesty International UK Section is acting as an agent selling this item on behalf of one of our Gift Aid Donors.

Seller Inventory # 915488

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visual Thought: The depictive space of perception (Advances in Consciousness Research)
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027252033
• ISBN 13: 9789027252036
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Dimensions: 165.1W x 247.65H x 31.75D millimeters 165.1 millimeters width by 247.65 millimeters height by 31.75 millimeters depth
• Weight: 839 grams

About this title

Synopsis

This volume starts from an interdisciplinary expertise of the contributors, and chooses to work on the very origins of conscious qualitative states in perception. The leading research paradigm can be synthesized in ‘phenomenology to neurons to stimuli, and backwards’, since as a starting point it has taken the phenomenal appearances in the visual field. Specifically, the leading theme of the volume is the co-presence and interaction of diverse types of spaces in vision, like the optical space of psychophysics and of neural elaboration, the qualitative space of phenomenal appearances, and its relation with the pictorial space of art. The contributors to the volume agree in arguing that those spaces follow different rules of organization, whose specific singularity and reciprocal dependence have to be individuated, as a preliminary step to understand the architecture of the conscious awareness of our environment and to conceive its potential implementation in constructing any kind of embodied intentional agents. (Series B)