Even Odder Perceptions

ISBN-13: 9781138699809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 282 str.

Richard L. Gregory

Opis

In this collection of essays, originally published in 1994, Richard Gregory once again delights and tantalizes with tales of his childhood, his family and friends, the famous and the infamous, and weaves them into a rich pattern to illuminate scientific principles and puzzles.

Spis treści

List of figures.  Pretext.  1. Traffic Lights  2. The Case of the Sugared Almonds  3. Perceptions of Hamlet  4. What Use is a Jelly Baby?  5. Is Science Bad for the Soul?  6. Is Science Good for the Soul?  7. Cracks – of Doom and Kuhn  8. At First Sight  9. At First Blush  10. Hi-Falootin-Fi: Sound Saga  11. Senses of Humour  12. Zap!  13. Virtually Real  14. Questions of Quanta and Qualia  15. What are Perceptions Made of?  16. Appearance and Reality: A Number of Ideas  17. Mind in a Black Box  18. What is the Catch in Neural Nets?  19. Conning Cortex  20. Perceptions of William James in The Principles of Psychology  21. Forgotten Genius of Bristol: William George Horner  22. Good as Gold: Newton’s Alchemy of Matter and Mind  23. Counting on Eyes  24. Switching Brains on by Exploring Hands-on  25. Michael Faraday’s Perception  26. Adelbert Ames: Interactions with Hermann Helmholtz, Albert Einstein and the Universe  27. Putting Illusions in Their Place.  Index.

O autorze

Richard L. Gregory