Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion? by Alva Noe

Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion? by Alva Noe

There is a traditional scepticism about whether the world "out there" really is as we perceive it. A new breed of hyper-sceptics now challenges whether we even have the perceptual experience we think we have. According to these writers, perceptual consciousness is a kind of false consciousness. This view grows out of the discovery of such phenomena as change blindness and inattentional blindness, which show that we can all be quite blind to changes taking place before our very eyes. Such radical scepticism has acute and widespread implications for the study of perception and consciousness. The writings collected in this volume explore these implications. The contributors are scientists and philosophers at the forefront of this research, and include well-known authors such as psychologists Susan Blackmore and Arien Mack, and philosophers Andy Clark and Daniel Dennett. They have an gift for bringing these paradoxical issues to life and sharing their excitement with the non-specialist.

He studies the mind's nature and human experience. He is the author of a number of publications, including Out of Our Minds (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2009) and Weird Tools: Art and Human Nature (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2015). He was awarded a Guggenheim grant in 2012 and the Judd/Hume Award in Advanced Visual Studies in 2018. He was a weekly contributor to 13.7: Cosmos and Culture, a science blog run by National Public Radio.

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ISBN 13	9780907845232
ISBN 10	0907845231
Title	Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion?
Author	Alva Noe
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Imprint Academic
Year published	2002-06-27
Number of pages	192
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