Spatial Representation
Problems in Philosophy and Psychology
Edited by Naomi Eilan, Rosaleen McCarthy, and Bill Brewer
Price: £30.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-823887-4
Publication date: 25 March 1999
426 pages, 58 halftones & line illus, 229x152 mm
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| Description | | - Psychologists and philosophers join forces to study a fascinating subject
- Spatial representation is a notable growth area of research
- All contributions specially written for this volume
- Features eminent figures from both sides of Atlantic
- The philosophy is accessible to psychologists and the psychology to philosophers
| 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.
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Readership: Scholars and graduate students in philosophy, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.
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General Introduction
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Naomi Eilan, Rosaleen McCarthy, and Bill Brewer
I. FRAMES OF REFERENCE
Introduction
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Bill Brewer Brewer and Julian Pears
1.
Organization of spatial knowledge in children
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Herbert L. Pick Jr.
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Kant and the sea-horse: An essay in the neurophilosophy of space
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John O'Keefe
3.
The role of physical objects in spatial thinking
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John Campbell
II. INTUITIVE PHYSICS
Introduction
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Naomi Eilan
4.
Extrapolating and remembering positions along cognitive trajectories: Uses and limitations of analogies to physical motion
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Lynn A. Cooper and Margaret P. Munger
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Perceiving and reasoning about objects: Insights from infants
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Elizabeth S. Spelke and Gretchen A. Van de Walle
6.
Intuitive mechanics, psychological reality and the idea of a material object
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Christopher Peacocke
III. SPATIAL REPRESENTATION IN THE SENSORY MODALITIES
Introduction
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Naomi Eilan
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Spatial and nonspatial avenues to object recognition by the human haptic system
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Roberta L. Klatzky and Susan J. Lederman
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Naomi Eilan, Director of the HRB Project on Consciousness and Self-Consciousness, University of Warwick,
Rosaleen McCarthy, University Lecturer in Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University, and
Bill Brewer, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, St Catherine's College, Oxford
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