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Title
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Transparency and sensorimotor contingencies : do we see through photographs?
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Author
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Abstract
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| It has been claimed that photographs are transparent: we see through them; we literally see the photographed object through the photograph. Whether this claim is true depends on the way we conceive of seeing. There has been a controversy about whether localizing the perceived object in one's egocentric space is a necessary feature of seeing, as if it is, then photographs are unlikely to be transparent. I would like to propose and defend another, much weaker, necessary condition for seeing: I argue that it is necessary for seeing that there is at least one way for me to move such that if I were to move this way, my view of the perceived object would change continuously as I move. Since this condition is not satisfied in the case of seeing objects in photographs, photographs are not transparent. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Pacific philosophical quarterly
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Publication
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2010
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DOI
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10.1111/J.1468-0114.2010.01380.X
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Volume/pages
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91
(2010)
, p. 463-480
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ISI
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000284854700002
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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