An eminent philosopher and a world famous neuroscientist collaborate on the question of what it really means to see. A truly interdisciplinary book, it blends neurophysiology, electrophysiological studies, cognitive psychology, psychophysics, and the philosophy of mind, to create a valuable contribution to the field of cognitive science.

• Introduction: What is human visual cognition


• Part I: The Purposes of Vision: Perceiving, Thinking and Acting


• 1: The representational theory of the visual mind


• Part II: Empirical Evidence for the Duality of Visual Processing


• 2: Multiple pathways in the primate visual system


• 3: Dissociations of visual functions by brain lesions in human patients


• 4: The varieties of normal human visual processing


• Part III: Perceiving objects and grasping them


• 5: Visual perception


• 6: Visuomotor representations


• Part IV: The perception of action


• 7: Seeing humans act


• Epilogue: The two visual systems revisited