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Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective

Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective

Turvey, Michael T.

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Series: Resources for Ecological Psychology

General Psychology

ISBN10: 1138335266
ISBN13: 9781138335264
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 5 2018
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective addresses the generic principles by which each and every kind of life form--from single celled organisms (e.g., difflugia) to multi-celled organisms (e.g., primates)--perceives the circumstances of their living so that they can behave adaptively. It focuses on the fundamental ability that relates each and every organism to its surroundings, namely, the ability to perceive things in the sense of how to get about among them and what to do, or not to do, with them. The book's core thesis breaks from the conventional interpretation of perception as a form of abduction based on innate hypotheses and acquired knowledge, and from the historical scientific focus on the perceptual abilities of animals, most especially those abilities ascribed to humankind. Specifically, it advances the thesis of perception as a matter of laws and principles at nature's ecological scale, and gives equal theoretical consideration to the perceptual achievements of all of the classically defined 'kingdoms' of organisms--Archaea, Bacteria, Protoctista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia.

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