Seeing Dark Things
The Philosophy of Shadows
Sorensen, Roy Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-532657-4




10 Holes in the Light
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326574.003.0011

Roy Sorensen
Abstract: All shadows are holes in the light. Therefore, recent psychology on the visual perception of holes generalizes to shadows. Some holes in the light are not due to light blockage. These dark patches are distinguished from shadows.

Keywords: holes, visual perception,

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Full Book Contents
Seeing Dark Things
Introduction
1 The Eclipse Riddle
2 Seeing Surfaces
3 The Disappearing Act
4 Spinning Shadows
5 Berkeley's Shadow
6 Para-reflections
7 Para-reflections
8 Goethe's Colored Shadows
9 Filtows
10 Holes in the Light
11 Black and Blue
12 Seeing in Black and White
13 We See in the Dark
14 Hearing Silence
Bibliography
Index
 
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