Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The Border Between Seeing and Thinking is an extraordinary achievement, the result of careful attention (and contribution) to both the science and philosophy of perception.The book offers some bold hypotheses.While the hypotheses themselves are worth the price of entry, Block's sustained defense of them grants the reader insight into countless fascinating experimental results and philosophical concepts.His unpretentious and accommodating exposition of the science-explaining rather than asserting, digging into specific results in detail rather than making summary judgments and demanding that readers take him at his word-is a model of how philosophers ought to engage with empirical evidence.It is simply not possible to read this book without learning something.It will surely play a foundational role in theoretical work on perception for many years to come. 1 For recent work on the discursive format of cognition, see Dehaene et al.
DOI: 10.1111/phpr.13131
Author: Jake Quilty‐Dunn
Institution: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,760
OpenAlex ID: W4405602586