Table of Contents

1. What Kinds of Systems Do We Study?



2. Organism-Environment Dualism



3. Direct Perceiving, Indirect Perceiving



4. Simulative, Projective and Locality Assumptions



5. The Mechanistic Hypothesis



6. The Cartesian Program



7. Empiricism and the Man in the Inner Room



8. The Space Enigmas I: Berkeley



9. The Space Enigmas II: Kant, the Nature of Geometry, and the Geometry of Nature



10. The Space Enigmas III: Local Signs and Geometrical Empiricism



11. Doctrines of Sensations and Unconscious Inferences



12. The Space Enigmas. IV: On Learning Space Perception



13. Gestaltism I: Atomism, Anatomism and Mechanistic Order



14. Gestalt Theory II: Fields, Self-organization, and the Invariance Postulate of Evolution



15. Gestalt Theory III: Experience Error, CNS Error, Psycho-neural Isomorphism, Behavioral Environment



Part2: Computational-Representational Perspective


16. The Computational-Representational Perspective: Preliminaries



17. Pattern Recognition and Representation Bearers



18. Turing Reductionism, Token Physicalism: The Computational System Assumption



19. Reflections on the Physical Symbol System Hypothesis



Part3: Ecological Perspective


20. Ecology: The Science that Reasons Why



21. Barriers to Ecological Realism



22. Ontology at the Ecological Scale



23. Ecological Optics Primer



24. Perceiving "How to Get About Among Things"



25. The Mechanical Basis for "Getting About Among Things"



26. Strong Anticipation and Direct Perception