... not. There is no apparent contradiction in the existence (or not) of the objects in question, and no account of why our conceivings lead us so astray. So we should reject each necessitarian answer. Balaguer Mark , Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion: Toward a Widespread Non-factualism . Oxford : Oxford...

...Daniel Garber Pasnau Robert , After Certainty: A History of Our Epistemic Ideals and Illusions . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2017 . viii + 384 pp. © 2020 by Cornell University 2020 This book has its origin in the Isaiah Berlin lectures that Robert Pasnau gave at Oxford...

... about the nature of the self or soul. His diagnosis has two main components: first, the positing of “Transcendental Illusion”—a pervasive intellectual illusion, modeled on perceptual illusion, which predisposes us to accept as sound certain invalid arguments for substantive theses about the nature...

... in a relation to a truth) and so is available not only in the good case of veridical perception but also in illusion or hallucination. Whether S’s belief is rational cannot hinge on minimal differences, as implied by disjunctivism. Schroeder illustrates this with a pair of cases C 1 and C 2...

... and philosophically suggestive account of the functional role of conscious visual experience. Cornell University 2001 Aglioti, S., M. Goodale, and J. F. X. DeSouza. 1995 : “Size Contrast Illusions Deceive the Eye but not the Hand.” Current Biology 5 : 679 -85. Bermudez, J. L. 1998 . The Paradox...

... about illusions, where one sees an object but it is not as it looks? The straight pencil might be half-immersed in water, and so look bent. Due to abnormal lighting or a color contrast effect, the pencil may look to have a shade of blue that it doesn’t in fact have. At least at first glance...

... of “preserving and reproducing perceptions” (56) that Aristotle analyzes in De Anima 3.3 and deploys in the Parva Naturalia in explaining memory, dreams, optical illusions, and the like. Practical or evaluative phantasia plays its role in action by virtue of preserving and reproducing evaluative...

... interprets the transition passage carries significant implications for how one understands the origins of dialectical error. Following Grier, Proops argues that transition happens because transcendental illusion tempts us to mistake a subjective principle for an objective one—“mistaking P for D” (46...

... Paralogism and argues that Kant aims to draw attention to the psychological ground for idealism: the idealist falls prey to the illusion that the existence of I of the I think is given in an immediate perception—thus conflating, according to Dyck, the formal I think with the empirical I am...

... . Franz V. H. Scharnowski F. Gegenfurtner K. R. . 2005 . “ Illusion Effects on Grasping Are Temporally Constant Not Dynamic .” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 31 : 1359 – 78 . Gibson J. J. 1979 . The Ecological Approach to Visual...

... and it makes it difficult to account for problem cases such as illusion, hallucination, blindsight, subliminal percep- tion, and the like. The very “openness” to objects and their properties that Stoneham finds attractive in SMP (and on which his reading of Berkeley as a direct realist about...

... does has some force. In chapter 3, Campbell refines the account of the functional role of atten- tion in cognition and action in light of empirical results concerning anoxia, blindsight, and various illusions. The refined role for conscious attention is that conscious attention to a substantial...

... as the premise that we are sometimes responsible for things. The existence of free will and its compatibility with determinism are not the only issues contributors discuss. Saul Smilansky discusses his thesis of “Illusion- ism,” which holds that a certain amount of illusion—deception and/or self- deception...

... think would make it a better candidate for a “feel good” neurotransmitter, but the issue passes without comment. Cotard's delusion is called an “illusion” (57), though illusions and delusions are not the same thing. Addiction is characterized in a manner that makes it impossible to be a long-term...

... proprietary objects of perception is dubbed the “composite snapshot conception.” As against this view, O'Callaghan cites numerous crossmodal illusions (e.g., amodal completion, the McGurk Effect, the sound-induced flash illusion). The significance of these illusions is not in the first instance...

... disagreement with the resolute approach remain submerged, and even here it is unclear that what Friedlander wants the Trac- tatus to accomplish is precluded by the resolute insistence that its end result is exorcism of a philosophical illusion of understanding. Friedlander’s reading is also informed...

.... In illusions, in contrast, you have perceptual contact with something, but it looks to you to be a way it isn’t. For instance, if you see a fi sh through a fi sh tank, but it looks to be farther to one side than it really is, then you have an illusion with respect to its location. So there are at least...

... BOOK REVIEWS O’Shaughnessy’s argument here bears some similarities to arguments from illusion on behalf of the sense-data theory of perception. One strategy to resist this sort of argument appeals to a disjunctive view wherein there is no common factor between the case of illusion...

... to Robert Nozick's (1974, 42–45) famous thought experiment involving an “experience machine.” You are given the opportunity to spend the rest of your life attached to a machine that stimulates your brain, giving you any experience you like. You will be under the illusion, when inside the machine, that you...

...-serving illusions promote nondepression and self-esteem, which in turn are conducive to subjective well-being and the ability to cope. The second problem is that friendship and moral virtue—both constituents of a good life, according to Hazlett—require the manifestation of some specific cognitive biases...