Spatial Representation

Problems in Philosophy and Psychology
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-823887-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 422 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 652 g

Spatial Representation presents original, specially written essays by leading psychologists and philosophers on a fascinating set of topics at the intersection of these two disciplines. They address such questions as these: Do the extraordinary navigational abilities of birds mean that these birds have the same kind of grip on the idea of a spatial world as we do? Is there a difference between the way sighted and blind subjects represent the world 'out there'? Does the study of brain-injured subjects, such as 'blind seers', tell us anything about the working of normal spatial consciousness?

The essays are arranged into five sections, each of which reflects a central area of research into spatial cognition, and opens with a short introduction by the editors, designed to facilitate cross-disciplinary reading. The volume as a whole offers a rich and compelling expression of the view that to advance our understanding of the way we represent the external world it is necessary to draw on both philosophical and psychological approaches.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eilan, Naomi

McCarthy, Rosaleen

Brewer, Bill

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Wahrnehmung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeit: Philosophische, Psychologische, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- General Introduction

- I. FRAMES OF REFERENCE

- Introduction

- 1: Herbert L. Pick Jr.: Organization of spatial knowledge in children

- 2: John O'Keefe: Kant and the sea-horse: An essay in the neurophilosophy of space

- 3: John Campbell: The role of physical objects in spatial thinking

- II. INTUITIVE PHYSICS

- Introduction

- 4: Lynn A. Cooper and Margaret P. Munger: Extrapolating and remembering positions along cognitive trajectories: Uses and limitations of analogies to physical motion

- 5: Elizabeth S. Spelke and Gretchen A. Van de Walle: Perceiving and reasoning about objects: Insights from infants

- 6: Christopher Peacocke: Intuitive mechanics, psychological reality and the idea of a material object

- III. SPATIAL REPRESENTATION IN THE SENSORY MODALITIES

- Introduction

- 7: Roberta L. Klatzky and Susan J. Lederman: Spatial and nonspatial avenues to object recognition by the human haptic system

Über Autor(innen)

Naomi Eilan is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Warwick; Rosaleen McCarthy is University Lecturer in Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge; Bill Brewer is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Catherine's College, Oxford.