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Perception, Realism, and the Problem of Reference - Hardcover

Edited By Athanassios Raftopoulos , Peter Machamer

 
9780521198776: Perception, Realism, and the Problem of Reference
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521198771 ISBN 13: 9780521198776
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

The chapters in the book address the problem of reference as it relates to perception and to debates about realism.

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About the Authors

Athanasios Raftopoulos is professor of Epistemology and Cognitive Science in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cyprus. He is the author of Cognition and Perception: How Do Psychology and the Neural Sciences Inform Philosophy (2009), editor of Cognitive Penetrability of Perception: Attention, Action, Planning, and Bottom-up Constraints (2005) and co-editor of Emergence and Transformation in the Mind: Modelling and Measuring Cognitive Change (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Peter Machamer is professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, Associate Director of Pittsburgh's Center for Philosophy of Science and a member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC). He is co-author, with J. E. McGuire, of Descartes' Changing Mind (2009). He is co-editor, with Gereon Wolters, of Interpretation (2010) and, with Michael Silberstein, of Blackwell's Guide to Philosophy of Science (2002).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521198771
ISBN 13 
9780521198776
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
298