Böcker av John Brendan Welsh Ritchie

The general topic of my thesis is how vision science explains what we see,and how we see it. There are two themes often found in the explanations of visionscience that I focus on. The first is the Distal Object Thesis: the internal representationsthat underlie object vision represent properties of entities in the distalworld. The second is the Transformational Thesis: the function of the vision systemis to transform information that is latent in the retinal image into a representationalformat that makes it available for use by further perceptual or cognitive systems.The ultimate aim of my project is to show that these two themes are in tension,and to suggest how the tension may be resolved.