Visual Phenomenology

Author : Michael Madary
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026254993X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Phenomenology written by Michael Madary and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phenomenological and empirical methods of investigating visual experience converge to support the thesis that visual perception is an ongoing process of anticipation and fulfillment. In this book, Michael Madary examines visual experience, drawing on both phenomenological and empirical methods of investigation. He finds that these two approaches—careful, philosophical description of experience and the science of vision—independently converge on the same result: Visual perception is an ongoing process of anticipation and fulfillment. Madary first makes the case for the descriptive premise, arguing that the phenomenology of vision is best described as on ongoing process of anticipation and fulfillment. He discusses visual experience as being perspectival, temporal, and indeterminate; considers the possibility of surprise when appearances do not change as we expect; and considers the content of visual anticipation. Madary then makes the case for the empirical premise, showing that there are strong empirical reasons to model vision using the general form of anticipation and fulfillment. He presents a range of evidence from perceptual psychology and neuroscience, and reinterprets evidence for the two-visual-systems hypothesis. Finally, he considers the relationship between visual perception and social cognition. An appendix discusses Husserlian phenomenology as it relates to the argument of the book. Madary argues that the fact that there is a convergence of historically distinct methodologies itself is an argument that supports his findings. With Visual Phenomenology, he creates an exchange between the humanities and the sciences that takes both methods of investigation seriously.

Author : Erika Goble
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315459272
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Phenomenology written by Erika Goble and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume—the second in Max Van Manen’s Phenomenology of Practice series—brings together personal narrative, human research methodology, and an extensive knowledge of aesthetic discourse to redefine the sublime in terms of direct and immediate experience. Erika Goble first traces the concept’s origin and development in Western philosophy, revealing how efforts to theorize aesthetic quality in axiomatic or objective frameworks fail to account for the variety of experiential paradoxes that can be evoked by a single image. She then examines several first-person descriptions of encounters with the sublime in order to reflect on a series of questions that have escaped aesthetic philosophy so far: What makes an experience uniquely sublime? What does this experience reveal about the human phenomenon of sublimity when it is evoked by an image? What does the experience of the sublime reveal about ourselves as being in the world with images? Goble’s book is a corrective to the rampant philosophizing in contemporary discussions of the sublime and an invaluable contribution to phenomenological research.

Author : Erika Goble
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315459280
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Phenomenology written by Erika Goble and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paradox of Sublimity

Author : Paul Crowther
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804762147
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame) written by Paul Crowther and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a comprehensive phenomenological study of meanings that are unique to the major visual art forms.

Author : Stephen E. Palmer
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0262161834
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vision Science written by Stephen E. Palmer and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1999-04-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revolutionizes how vision can be taught to undergraduate and graduate students in cognitive science, psychology, and optometry. It is the first comprehensive textbook on vision to reflect the integrated computational approach of modern research scientists. This new interdisciplinary approach, called "vision science," integrates psychological, computational, and neuroscientific perspectives. The book covers all major topics related to vision, from early neural processing of image structure in the retina to high-level visual attention, memory, imagery, and awareness. The presentation throughout is theoretically sophisticated yet requires minimal knowledge of mathematics. There is also an extensive glossary, as well as appendices on psychophysical methods, connectionist modeling, and color technology. The book will serve not only as a comprehensive textbook on vision, but also as a valuable reference for researchers in cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, computer science, optometry, and philosophy.

Author : Emmanuel Alloa
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231547579
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking Through Images written by Emmanuel Alloa and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an unconditional embrace of the visual. However, we still lack a persuasive theoretical account of how images work. Emmanuel Alloa retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our everyday engagement with the world. He examines how ideas of images and their powers have been constructed in Western humanities, art theory, and philosophy, developing a novel genealogy of both visual studies and the concept of the medium. Alloa reconstructs the earliest Western media theory—Aristotle’s concept of the diaphanous milieu of vision—and the significance of its subsequent erasure in the history of science. Ultimately, he argues for a historically informed phenomenology of images and visual media that explains why images are not simply referential depictions, windows onto the world. Instead, images constantly reactivate the power of appearing. As media of visualization, they allow things to appear that could not be visible except in and through these very material devices.

Author : Richard Brown
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400760019
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consciousness Inside and Out: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Experience written by Richard Brown and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is product of the third online consciousness conference, held at http://consciousnessonline.com in February and March 2011. Chapters range over epistemological issues in the science and philosophy of perception, what neuroscience can do to help us solve philosophical issues in the philosophy of mind, what the true nature of black and white vision, pain, auditory, olfactory, or multi-modal experiences are, to higher-order theories of consciousness, synesthesia, among others. Each chapter includes a target article, commentaries, and in most cases, a final response from the author. Though wide-ranging all of the papers aim to understand consciousness both from the inside, as we experience it, and from the outside as we encounter it in our science. The Online Consciousness Conference, founded and organized by Richard Brown, is dedicated to the rigorous study of consciousness and mind. The goal is to bring philosophers, scientists, and interested lay persons together in an online venue to promote high-level discussion and exchanging of views, ideas and data related to the scientific and philosophical study of consciousness.

Author : Paul Majkut
Publisher : Zeta Books
ISBN 13 : 9731997784
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phenomenology and Media written by Paul Majkut and published by Zeta Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first decade of its existence, from 1999 to 2008, the Society for Phenomenology and Media held annual international conferences in San Diego (California), Puebla (Mexico), Krakow (Poland), Helsinki (Finland), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Provo (Utah), and Monmouth (Oregon). Papers delivered at these conferences were published in the Society's journal, Glimpse. The current volume is an anthology of essays drawn from the first ten years of Glimpse. From its birth, the Society sought to bridge the gap between contemporary media theory and practice and phenomenological insight. Essays in this anthology include work on digital representation, film, mobile communication, cyberspace, medieval manuscripts, print, radio, the stage, TV, virtual reality, and other media, as well as theoretical papers dealing with media aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and ontology.

Author : Joseph Parry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136846859
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Phenomenology written by Joseph Parry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and Phenomenology is one of the first books to explore visual art as a mode of experiencing the world itself, showing how in the words of Merleau-Ponty ‘Painting does not imitate the world, but is a world of its own’. Essential reading for anyone interested in phenomenology, aesthetics, and visual culture.

Author : Daniel O. Dahlstrom
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134516347
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Mind and Phenomenology written by Daniel O. Dahlstrom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume identifies and develops how philosophy of mind and phenomenology interact in both conceptual and empirically-informed ways. The objective is to demonstrate that phenomenology, as the first-personal study of the contents and structures of our mentality, can provide us with insights into the understanding of the mind and can complement strictly analytical or empirically informed approaches to the study of the mind. Insofar as phenomenology, as the study or science of phenomena, allows the mind to appear, this collection shows how the mind can reappear through a constructive dialogue between different ways—phenomenological, analytical, and empirical—of understanding mentality.