Lectures on perception: an ecological perspective

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part 1: Foundational concepts. What kind of systems do we study?

Organism-environment dualism

Direct perceiving, indirect perceiving

Simulative, projective and locality assumptions

The mechanistic hypothesis

The Cartesian program

Empiricism and the man in the inner room

The space enigmas I: Berkeley

The space enigmas II: Kant, the nature of geometry, and the geometry of nature

The space enigmas III: Local signs and geometrical empiricism

Doctrines of sensations and unconscious inferences

The space enigmas IV: On learning space perception

Gestaltism I: Atomism, anatomism and mechanistic order

Gestalt theory II: Fields, self-organization, and the invariance postulate of evolution

Gestalt theory III: Experience error, CNS error, psycho-neural isomorphism, behavioral environment

Part 2: Computational-representational perspective. The computational-representational perspective: Preliminaries. Pattern recongition and represenation bearers

Turing reductionism, token physicalism: The computational system assumption

Reflections on the physical symbol system hypothesis

Part 3: Ecological perspective. Ecology: The science that reasons why

Barriers to ecological realism

Ontology at the ecological scale

Ecological optics primer

Perceiving "how to get about among things"

The mechanical basis for "getting about among things"

Strong anticipation and direct perception

Index