Perceptual Illusions

Philosophical and Psychological Essays

  • Clotilde Calabi
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Clotilde Calabi
      Pages 1-21

  3. What Is an Illusion?

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 23-23
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    2. The Illusion of Visual Illusions
      Robert Schwartz
      Pages 25-43
    3. Illusions that We Should Have (but Don’t)
      Nicola Bruno
      Pages 44-58
    4. The Awareness of Illusions
      Elena Pasquinelli
      Pages 59-74
    5. The Genesis of the Awareness of Illusion
      Ugo Savardi, Michael Kubovy, Ivana Bianchi
      Pages 75-84

  4. Veridical Perceptions

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 85-85
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    2. Perceptual Constancies: Illusions and Veridicality
      Barry Maund
      Pages 87-106
    3. Is the Moon Illusion an Illusion?
      Helen E. Ross
      Pages 107-123
    4. Cats! Michotte’s New Enigma of Perception
      Clotilde Calabi
      Pages 124-141

  5. Do Pictures and Mirrors Fool the Eye?

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 143-143
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    2. Trompe l’œil and the Nature of Pictures
      Paolo Spinicci
      Pages 145-163
    3. Toward a Syncretistic Theory of Depiction (or How to Account for the Illusionist Aspect of Experiencing Pictures)
      Alberto Voltolini
      Pages 164-191
    4. Mirrors, Illusions, and Epistemic Innocence
      Roberto Casati
      Pages 192-201

  6. Other Errors: Recalcitrant Emotions and Misidentifications

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 203-203
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    2. Emotions, Perceptions, and Emotional Illusions
      Christine Tappolet
      Pages 205-222
    3. Perceptual Misrecognition: A Kind of Illusion?
      Jérôme Dokic
      Pages 223-241
    4. Seeing Double: Illusions of Identity in Delusional Disorders
      Philip Gerrans
      Pages 242-259
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 260-286
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About this book

Introduction

Although current debates in epistemology and philosophy of mind show a renewed interest in perceptual illusions, there is no systematic work in the philosophy of perception and in the psychology of perception with respect to the concept of illusion and the relation between illusion and error. This book aims to fill that gap.

Keywords

epistemology knowledge mind perception philosophy of mind

Editors and affiliations

  • Clotilde Calabi
    • 1
  1. 1.University of MilanItaly

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