Studies in perception:interrelations in the history of philosophy and science

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Machamer Peter K; Turnbull Robert G
Published: Ohio State University Press,
Publisher Address: Columbus
Publication Dates: c1978.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: ix, 567 p.: ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0814202446
Index Number: B023
CLC: B023.2-08
Call Number: B023.2-08/M149/
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The role of the "special sensibles" in the perception theories of Plato and Aristotle / Roger G. Turnbull -- The sense of an object : Epicurus on seeing and hearing / Edward N. Lee -- Early Hellenistic theories of vision and the perception of color / David E. Hahm -- The stoic theory of perception and its "Platonic" critics / Heinrich von Staden -- The intromission-extramission controversy in Islamic visual theory : Alkindi versus Avicenna / David C. Lindberg -- Sensation and inference in Alhazen's theory of visual perception / A.I. Sabra -- A medieval theory of vision / Gareth B. Matthews -