Parts and Places: The Structures of Spatial Representation
The Structures of Spatial Representation
$70.86
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2003
Summary
Thinking about space is thinking about spatial things. The table is on the carpet; hence the carpet is under the table. The vase is in the box; hence the box is not in the vase. But what does it mean for an object to be somewhere? How are objects tied to the space they occupy? In this book Roberto Casati and Achille C. Varzi address some of the fundamental issues in the philosophy of spatial representation. Their starting point is an analysis of the interplay between mereology (the study of p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262517072 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262517078 |
| Author: | Roberto Casati, Achille C. Varzi |
| Publisher: | Bradford Book |
| Imprint: | Bradford Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2003 |
| Weight: | 349g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Parts and Places |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
“This is a lively and original survey of a broad and excitingterritory. The scholarship is impeccable, the literature treated isup-to-date and thoroughly addressed, and the authors dealinterestingly with cutting-edge problems at the borderlines ofphilosophy and cognitive science.” Barry Smith , State University of New York at Buffalo
About The Author
Roberto Casati
Roberto Casati was born in Milan in 1961. A research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, he lives in Paris and works at the Institut Nicod, a laboratory of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and of the Ecole Normale. He studies the cognition of strange things–images, colors, sounds, places, holes–and shadows. With Achille Varzi he is the author of Holes and Other Superficialities and Parts and Places,”
“Abigail Asher (translator) is an editor of art history and other nonfiction books. She has lived and worked in publishing in Italy; she now lives a
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