Perceptual Illusions Philosophical and Psychological Essays [Hardcover]

Although current debates in epistemology and philosophy of mind show a renewed interest in perceptual illusions, there is no systematic work in the philosophy of perception and in the psychology of perception with respect to the concept of illusion and the relation between illusion and error. This book aims to fill that gap.Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; C.Calabi PART I: WHAT IS AN ILLUSION? The Illusion of Visual Illusions; R.Schwartz Illusions that We Should Have (but don't); N.Bruno The Awareness of Illusions; E.Pasquinelli The Genesis of the Awareness of Illusions; U.Savardi , M.Kubovy & I.Bianchi PART II: VERIDICAL PERCEPTIONS Perceptual Constancies: Illusions and Veridicality; B.Maund Is the Moon Illusion an Illusion?; H.Ross Cats! Michotte's New Enigma of Perception; C.Calabi PART III: DO PICTURES AND MIRRORS FOOL THE EYE? Trompe l' il and the Nature of Pictures; P.Spinicci Towards a Synchretist Theory of Depiction (How to Account for the Illusionistic Aspect of Pictorial Mirrors, Illusions and Epistemic Innocence; R.Casati PART IV: OTHER ERRORS: RECALCITRANT EMOTIONS AND MISIDENTIFICATIONS Emotions, Perceptions and Emotional Illusions; C.Tappolet Perceptual Misrecognition: A Kind Of Illusion?; J.Dokic Seeing Double: Illusions of Identity in Delusional Disorders; P.Gerrans IndexIVANA BIANCHI Associate Professor of General Psychology at the University of Macerata, Department of Educational Sciences, ItalyNICOLA BRUNO Full Professor of Psychology at the University of Parma, ItalyROBERTO CASATI Tenured senior researcher with the French Centre National de la Recherche Scienti?que (CNRS-EHESS-ENS), Paris, FranceJ?R?ME DOKIC Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the ?cole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences Sociales and a member of Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, FrancePHILIP GERRANS Reader in the Philosophy Department at the University of Adelaide, AustraliaMICHAEL KUBOVY Full Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the Universityl¨