In this Book
- Visual Phenomenology
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: The MIT Press
summary
In this book, Michael Madary examines visual experience, drawing on both phenomenological and empirical methods of investigation. He finds that these two approaches -- careful, philosophical description of experience and the science of vision -- independently converge on the same result: Visual perception is an ongoing process of anticipation and fulfillment. Madary first makes the case for the descriptive premise, arguing that the phenomenology of vision is best described as on ongoing process of anticipation and fulfillment. He discusses visual experience as being perspectival, temporal, and indeterminate; considers the possibility of surprise when appearances do not change as we expect; and considers the content of visual anticipation. Madary then makes the case for the empirical premise, showing that there are strong empirical reasons to model vision using the general form of anticipation and fulfillment. He presents a range of evidence from perceptual psychology and neuroscience, and reinterprets evidence for the two-visual-systems hypothesis. Finally, he considers the relationship between visual perception and social cognition. An appendix discusses Husserlian phenomenology as it relates to the argument of the book.Madary argues that the fact that there is a convergence of historically distinct methodologies itself is an argument that supports his findings. With Visual Phenomenology, he creates an exchange between the humanities and the sciences that takes both methods of investigation seriously.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Abbreviations
- pp. xv-xvi
- Part I
- 1 Introduction
- pp. 3-26
- 2 Three Constraints
- pp. 27-40
- 3 Anticipation and Fulfillment
- pp. 41-58
- 4 The Question of Content
- pp. 59-88
- Part II
- 5 Some Perceptual Psychology
- pp. 91-118
- 6 The Active Brain
- pp. 119-130
- 7 The Dorsal Stream and the Visual Horizon
- pp. 131-152
- Part III
- 8 The Convergence
- pp. 155-164
- 9 Seeing Our World
- pp. 165-176
- A.1 Finding AF in Husserl
- pp. 177-180
- References
- pp. 203-240
Additional Information
ISBN
9780262341783
Related ISBN(s)
9780262035453
MARC Record
OCLC
968736228
Pages
264
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-24
Language
English
Open Access
No