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Seeing and retinal stability: on a sensorimotor argument for the necessity of eye movement for sight

Seeing and retinal stability: on a sensorimotor argument for the necessity of eye movement for sight
Seeing and retinal stability: on a sensorimotor argument for the necessity of eye movement for sight
Sensorimotor theorists of perception have argued that eye movement is a necessary condition for seeing on the basis that subjects whose retinal images do not move undergo a form of blindness. I show that the argument does not work.
0951-5089
263-266
Cavedon-Taylor, Daniel
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Cavedon-Taylor, Daniel
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Cavedon-Taylor, Daniel (2013) Seeing and retinal stability: on a sensorimotor argument for the necessity of eye movement for sight. Philosophical Psychology, 26 (2), 263-266. (doi:10.1080/09515089.2011.633699).

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Sensorimotor theorists of perception have argued that eye movement is a necessary condition for seeing on the basis that subjects whose retinal images do not move undergo a form of blindness. I show that the argument does not work.

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Accepted/In Press date: September 2011
e-pub ahead of print date: 17 November 2011
Published date: 2013
Organisations: Philosophy

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Local EPrints ID: 405224
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/405224
ISSN: 0951-5089
PURE UUID: 00eb4119-c413-49e8-af7f-869021ec0e3b

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Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 04:25

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Author: Daniel Cavedon-Taylor

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