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Perceptual Illusions

Philosophical and Psychological Essays

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  • © 2012

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  1. Clotilde Calabi

    1. University of Milan, Italy

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Clotilde Calabi
      Pages 1-21

  3. What Is an Illusion?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. The Illusion of Visual Illusions

      • Robert Schwartz
      Pages 25-43

    3. Illusions that We Should Have (but Don’t)

      • Nicola Bruno
      Pages 44-58

    4. The Awareness of Illusions

      • Elena Pasquinelli
      Pages 59-74

    5. The Genesis of the Awareness of Illusion

      • Ugo Savardi, Michael Kubovy, Ivana Bianchi
      Pages 75-84

  4. Veridical Perceptions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. Perceptual Constancies: Illusions and Veridicality

      • Barry Maund
      Pages 87-106

    3. Is the Moon Illusion an Illusion?

      • Helen E. Ross
      Pages 107-123

    4. Cats! Michotte’s New Enigma of Perception

      • Clotilde Calabi
      Pages 124-141

  5. Do Pictures and Mirrors Fool the Eye?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Trompe l’œil and the Nature of Pictures

      • Paolo Spinicci
      Pages 145-163

    3. Toward a Syncretistic Theory of Depiction (or How to Account for the Illusionist Aspect of Experiencing Pictures)

      • Alberto Voltolini
      Pages 164-191

    4. Mirrors, Illusions, and Epistemic Innocence

      • Roberto Casati
      Pages 192-201

  6. Other Errors: Recalcitrant Emotions and Misidentifications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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    2. Emotions, Perceptions, and Emotional Illusions

      • Christine Tappolet
      Pages 205-222

    3. Perceptual Misrecognition: A Kind of Illusion?

      • Jérôme Dokic
      Pages 223-241

    4. Seeing Double: Illusions of Identity in Delusional Disorders

      • Philip Gerrans
      Pages 242-259

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 260-286
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Milan, Italy

    Clotilde Calabi

About the editor

IVANA BIANCHI Associate Professor of General Psychology at the University of Macerata, Department of Educational Sciences, Italy NICOLA BRUNO Full Professor of Psychology at the University of Parma, Italy ROBERTO CASATI Tenured senior researcher with the French Centre National de la Recherche Scienti?que (CNRS-EHESS-ENS), Paris, France JÉRÔME DOKIC Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and a member of Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, France PHILIP GERRANS Reader in the Philosophy Department at the University of Adelaide, Australia MICHAEL KUBOVY Full Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia, USA BARRY MAUND Professor in the Philosophy Department at The University of Western Australia ELENA PASQUINELLI Researcher at the Département d'études cognitives, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, France HELEN ROSS Honorary Reader in Psychology at the University of Stirling, Scotland, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Psychological Society UGO SAVARDI Full Professor of General Psychology at the University of Verona, Department of Philosophy, Education and Psychology, Italy ROBERT SCHWARTZ Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA PAOLO SPINICCI Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Milan, Italy CHRISTINE TAPPOLET Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Meta-ethics and Full Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Université de Montréal, Canada ALBERTO VOLTOLINI Philosopher of language and mind. He is currently Professor of Philosophy of Mind at the University of Turin, Italy

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Perceptual Illusions

  • Book Subtitle: Philosophical and Psychological Essays

  • Editors: Clotilde Calabi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230365292

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-34790-8Published: 22 May 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-59498-6Published: 21 April 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-36529-2Published: 03 April 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 286

  • Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Aesthetics, Cognitive Psychology

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