The philosophy of perception is a microcosm of the metaphysics of mind.                  Its central problems--What is perception? What is the nature of perceptual                  consciousness? How can one fit an account of perceptual experience into a broader                  account of the nature of the mind and the world?--are at the heart of metaphysics.                  Rather than try to cover all of the many strands in the philosophy of perception,                  this book focuses on a particular orthodoxy about the nature of visual                  perception.The central problem for visual science has been to explain how the brain                  bridges the gap between what is given to the visual system and what is actually                  experienced by the perceiver. The orthodox view of perception is that it is a                  process whereby the brain, or a dedicated subsystem of the brain, builds up                  representations of relevant figures of the environment on the basis of information                  encoded by the sensory receptors. Most adherents of the orthodox view also believe                  that for every conscious perceptual state of the subject, there is a particular set                  of neurons whose activities are sufficient for the occurrence of that state. Some of                  the essays in this book defend the orthodoxy; most criticize it; and some propose                  alternatives to it. Many of the essays are classics. The contributors include, among                  others, G. E. M. Anscombe, Dana Ballard, Daniel Dennett, Fred Dretske, Jerry Fodor,                  H. P. Grice, David Marr, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Zenon Pylyshyn, Paul Snowdon, and P.                  F. Strawson.

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