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  Vision & Mind: Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception
Edited by Alva Noë and Evan Thompson. The MIT Press.
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  Table of Contents  
 

A. Noë & E. Thompson

Introduction
 

Merleau-Ponty

Selections from Phenomenology of Perception: The sensation as a unit of experience; Experience and objective thought. The problem of the body; The theory of the body is already a theory of perception.
 

H.P. Grice

Some remarks about the senses.
 

G.E.M. Anscombe

The intentionality of sensation: a grammatical feature.
 

J. J. Gibson

The direct theory of visual perception.
 

P. F. Strawson

Perception and its objects.
 

R. Gregory

Perceptions as hypotheses.
 

D. Lewis

Veridical hallucination and prosthetic perception.
 

P. Snowdon

Experience, vision and causation.
 

J. Fodor & Z. W. Pylyshyn

How direct is visual perception: some reflections on Gibson's ecological approach.
 

D. Marr.

Selections from Vision.
 

C. Peacocke

Sensation and the content of experience.
 

D. Teller

Linking propositions.
 

G. Evans

Molyneux›s question.
 

E. Thompson, A. Palacios & F.J. Varela

Ways of coloring: comparative color vision as case study for cognitive science.
 

F. Dretske

Conscious experience.
 

J. McDowell

The content of perceptual experience.
 

D. Ballard

On the function of visual representation.
 

D.C. Dennett

Seeing is believingœor is it?
 

P. Bach-y-Rita

Sensory substitution and qualia.
 

A.D. Milner and M.A. Goodale

The functions of vision.
 

D. Chalmers

What is a neural correlate of consciousness?
 

A. Noë & J.K. O'Regan

On the brain basis of visual consciousness: a sensorimotor account.

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