Analysis Of Perception

This is Volume XIX of twenty-one in the Cognitive Psychology series. First published in 1956, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of perception. The author takes a representationalist view and disposes of the theory of projected sensations. Adopting Bertrand Russell's idea of physical and perceptual worlds, proceeds to discuss the possible geometries of their mutual relations. The value of this book is that the author has made available to students of philosophy much new knowledge of the first importance.

J. R. Smythies

Chapter 1 The Representative Theory of Perception; Chapter 2 The Genesis of the Visual Field; Chapter 3 The Status of Somatic Sense-Data; Chapter 4 Veridical and Hallucinatory Sense-Experience; Chapter 5 12nd Edition, revised 1950; Chapter 6 The Status of Mind in Sherrington's Philosophy;