Proponents of faithful depiction offer an evolutionary argument for their position, albeit an argument different than the one sketched above for the principle of satisficing categories. Their argument is spelled out, for instance, by Palmer…the Rear-Mirror: Romantic Aesthetics, Culture, and Science Seen from Today. Festschrift for Frederick Burwick on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, ed. W. Pape (WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier: Trier) (Studien zur Englischen Roma…
Stephen E. Palmer
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Stephen E. Palmer is a cognitive scientist known for his work on visual perception and the relationship between how we see the world and how accurately our perceptions represent it. The course readings cite his *Vision Science* textbook to ground arguments about faithful depiction and evolutionary accounts of perception—suggesting that understanding how vision actually works is foundational to debates about representation and reality in AI systems. His framework appears to be deployed by course authors building bridges between perceptual psychology and questions about whether machine learning models can or should aim for veridical representations of the world.
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