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Seeing dark things : the philosophy of shadows

Title
Seeing dark things : the philosophy of shadows / Roy Sorensen.
Author
Sorensen, Roy A.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Description
xiii, 310 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Subject
  • Perception (Philosophy)
  • Shades and shadows
  • Causation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-301) and index.
Contents
The eclipse riddle -- Seeing surfaces -- The disappearing act -- Spinning shadows -- Berkeley's shadow -- Para-reflections -- Para-refractions : shadowgrams and the black drop -- Goethe's colored shadows -- Filtows -- Holes in the light -- Black and blue -- Seeing in black and white -- We see in the dark -- Hearing silence.
ISBN
  • 9780195326574 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0195326571 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007001267
OCLC
  • ocm79256720
  • SCSB-9479442
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library