A Theory of Perception

Pitcher, George

ISBN 10: 0691071713 / ISBN 13: 9780691071718

Published by Princeton University Press, 1971

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Size: 8vo <9 3/4". xii + 238pp. Binding firm, spine slightly cocked. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Dust Jacket slightly worn with slightly faded spine. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Edges foxed. Boards slightly bowed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Philosophy; Psychology & Psychiatry. ISBN: 0691071713. ISBN/EAN: 9780691071718. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 46859.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Theory of Perception
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691071713
• ISBN 13: 9780691071718
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

Presented here in a lucid, simple style is an extended defense of a behavioral and direct-realist theory of sense perception.

Originally published in 1971.

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About the Author

George Pitcher was industrial editor of "The Observer" during the Tory privatisation years. He quit while he was ahead when he was voted National Newspaper Industrial Journalist of the Year in 1991and co-founded Luther Pendragon, a communications consultancy operating at the sharp-end of industry and politics, with broadcast-news journalist Charles Stewart-Smith. Over the past decade, his firm has advised senior executives of companies and institutions facing some of the most high-profile and controversial issues of the age and formed the team that advised the Government's Cabinet Office project on the Millennium Bug. He continues to write regular business columns and commentaries and lives in London with his wife and four children.