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- catalog abstract "Perception theory sits at the heart of all our educational assumptions, whether acknowledged or not. Are we all simply running around like mice in mazes, automatically responding to stimuli? Is learning basically salivating like Pavlov's dog? Or perhaps each of us is solipsistically creating the world as we project the buzzing, blooming flotsam of reality in the theater of our minds. Such descriptions of learning are rooted in Enlightenment assumptions about perception, and are challenged psychologically, philosophically, and theologically in this book. Touring through the works of major theorists in modern western history of perception theory, from Kepler and Descartes through Kant and Hume; through Bretano, James, Dewey, Watson, and the Gestaltists for example, the author describes a set of tensions and competing directions in perception theory. This book relies upon the revolutionary work of James Jerome Gibson and his ecological approach to perception in order to reconstruct some basic assumptions about sensing, knowing, and learning. Instead of a closed system, Gibson's work can be understood as corresponding to an open-systems universe. Learning has to do with how bodily-perceptive systems attend to the inexhaustible and inherently meaningful reality in which we discover ourselves.".
- catalog contributor b11010274.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-229) and index.".
- catalog description "Perception theory sits at the heart of all our educational assumptions, whether acknowledged or not. Are we all simply running around like mice in mazes, automatically responding to stimuli? Is learning basically salivating like Pavlov's dog? Or perhaps each of us is solipsistically creating the world as we project the buzzing, blooming flotsam of reality in the theater of our minds.".
- catalog description "Such descriptions of learning are rooted in Enlightenment assumptions about perception, and are challenged psychologically, philosophically, and theologically in this book. Touring through the works of major theorists in modern western history of perception theory, from Kepler and Descartes through Kant and Hume; through Bretano, James, Dewey, Watson, and the Gestaltists for example, the author describes a set of tensions and competing directions in perception theory.".
- catalog description "This book relies upon the revolutionary work of James Jerome Gibson and his ecological approach to perception in order to reconstruct some basic assumptions about sensing, knowing, and learning. Instead of a closed system, Gibson's work can be understood as corresponding to an open-systems universe. Learning has to do with how bodily-perceptive systems attend to the inexhaustible and inherently meaningful reality in which we discover ourselves.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. The Modern Heritage of Perception. 1. Atomistic Abstractions. 2. Constricted Knowing. 3. Zeno's Paradox. 4. Persisting Trends on Shifting Ground -- pt. 2. The Ecological Approach to Perception. 5. Gibson's Grounding of Perception. 6. Perceptual Systems and Attention. 7. Bounded yet Open -- pt. 3. Critique and Construction. 8. Critical Considerations. 9. Reconstruction -- pt. 4. Theological Anthropology. 10. A Step into the Universal. 11. Eternity Nigh. 12. Creation. 13. Face to Face. 14. In Touch -- pt. 5. Deepening. 15. Sensitivity to Life. 16. Learning Reconsidered. 17. Scribbles and Dimensions of Difference. 18. Attention and Wisdom -- pt. 6. Mysterious Realism. 19. In Search of Understanding. 20. Wonder.".
- catalog extent "235 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Texture of mystery.".
- catalog identifier "0838753825 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Texture of mystery.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press,".
- catalog relation "Texture of mystery.".
- catalog subject "121/.34 21".
- catalog subject "B828.45 .W54 1998".
- catalog subject "Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)".
- catalog subject "Learning, Psychology of.".
- catalog subject "Perception (Philosophy)".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. The Modern Heritage of Perception. 1. Atomistic Abstractions. 2. Constricted Knowing. 3. Zeno's Paradox. 4. Persisting Trends on Shifting Ground -- pt. 2. The Ecological Approach to Perception. 5. Gibson's Grounding of Perception. 6. Perceptual Systems and Attention. 7. Bounded yet Open -- pt. 3. Critique and Construction. 8. Critical Considerations. 9. Reconstruction -- pt. 4. Theological Anthropology. 10. A Step into the Universal. 11. Eternity Nigh. 12. Creation. 13. Face to Face. 14. In Touch -- pt. 5. Deepening. 15. Sensitivity to Life. 16. Learning Reconsidered. 17. Scribbles and Dimensions of Difference. 18. Attention and Wisdom -- pt. 6. Mysterious Realism. 19. In Search of Understanding. 20. Wonder.".
- catalog title "The texture of mystery : an interdisciplinary inquiry into perception and learning / J. Bradley Wigger.".
- catalog type "text".