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introduction |
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| 1/20 |
the relationship between the world that is and the world we perceive. |
read: First Dialogue between Hylas and Philonous, George Berkeley, 1713 |
debate: Berkeley vs. Johnson |
| 1/27 |
waveforms. The electro-magnetic spectrum |
read The Fourier Theory of Vision OR read The puzzle of absolute pitch, Diana Deutsch |
debate: light: particles and waves |
| 2/3 |
in/direct realism |
read: The Argument from Illusion**,** A. J. Ayer |
debate intromission vs. extramission theories of vision |
| 2/10 |
sense data |
Peter Strawson, Perception and its Objects |
lab: telling orange light from red-yellow light. |
| 2/17 |
Intentionaliy of Perception |
read: Gilbert Harman, excerpt from The Intrinsic Quality of Experience, read: http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_neuroscienceofmagic |
lab: perform a magic trick |
| 2/24 |
The Content of Perception+ The No-content View |
read: The Nonconceptual Content of Experience, Tim Crane 1992, read: Perception and Content, Bill Brewer |
lab: make rainbows |
| 3/02 |
Cezanne’s Doubt and The Information Available in Pictures |
read: Cezanne’s Doubt, Merleau-Ponty, read: The Case of the Colorblind Painter, Oliver Sacks |
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| 3/09 |
Molyneux's Problem |
read: Campbell on Molyneux’ Question, read: THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN PICTURES, James J. Gibson (light can convey information about the world and, hence, that the phenomenal world does not have to be constructed by the mind) |
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| 3/16 |
Gestalt Theory, Experience is Subjective |
read: "What is it like to be a bat?" Thomas Nagel, read The Intelligence of Vision: An Interview with Rudolf Arnheim |
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| 3/23 |
SPRING BREAK |
| 3/30 |
Sense Modalities: Seeing, Touching, Hearing |
read: “The Nobility of Sight” Hans Jonas, read The puzzle of absolute pitch, Diana Deutsch |
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| 4/06 |
Disjunctivism |
read: Introduction to Disjunctivism, Byrne and Logue |
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| 4/13 |
motion pictures |
read: Shuttering Mechanisms of Zoetrope and Zoopraxiscope, read: Why Do Movies Move?, Alvy Ray Smith |
lab answer this: why do Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion puppets look so stilted? |
| 4/20 |
unconscious perception |
read “Unconscious Perception” Prinz |
lab perception without illusion: the Ebbinghaus illusion in 3D |
| 4/27 |
Ecological Approach To Visual Perception: Action, perception,embodiment |
read: Action in Perception |
summary |