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Review Of Patrick Heelan, Space-Perception And The Philosophy Of Science, Cliff Hooker
Review Of Patrick Heelan, Space-Perception And The Philosophy Of Science, Cliff Hooker
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Heelan has taken a rich philosophical framework and within its categories woven a marvellously detailed and wondrously wide tapestry. That tapestry includes an exciting illumination of Western art and pictorial understanding generally; the sweep of history, scientific and cultural; the enterprise of science and the nature and roles of technology in both science and culture. Heelan's book then has interest at several different levels; in ascending order: there are the specific theses about vision and about science; there is the connecting of philosophy of visual art and philosophy of science; there is Heelan's attempt to set both of these latter …