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5.0 out of 5 stars Tearing down the veil of perception, October 21, 1998
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This review is from: The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems (Hardcover)
This is one of the greatest books ever written on the subject of sense-perception. It's a masterpiece not just in psychology but in philosophy. Against the view that perception involves taking in raw data and then doing a lot of internal construction and inference to build up an internal image representing the world, Gibson defends a more Aristotelean, direct-realist view that our senses enable us to perceive directly the information that is available in the external world. Gibson calls this an "ecological" approach to perception. He's particularly interested in our perception of motion, and of our ability to perceive changes in our own position. This summary doesn't do justice to the richness of this book.
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The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems
The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems by James Jerome Gibson (Hardcover - June 8, 1983)
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