Perceptual Illusions

1. Introduction
Clotilde Calabi

Part I. What Is an Illusion?

2. The Illusion of Visual Illusions
Robert Schwartz

3. Illusions that We Should Have (but Don’t)
Nicola Bruno

4. The Awareness of Illusions
Elena Pasquinelli

5. The Genesis of the Awareness of Illusion
Ugo Savardi, Michael Kubovy, Ivana Bianchi

Part II. Veridical Perceptions

6. Perceptual Constancies: Illusions and Veridicality
Barry Maund

7. Is the Moon Illusion an Illusion?
Helen E. Ross

8. Cats! Michotte’s New Enigma of Perception
Clotilde Calabi

Part III. Do Pictures and Mirrors Fool the Eye?

9. Trompe l’œil and the Nature of Pictures
Paolo Spinicci

10. Toward a Syncretistic Theory of Depiction (or How to Account for the Illusionist Aspect of Experiencing Pictures)
Alberto Voltolini

11. Mirrors, Illusions, and Epistemic Innocence
Roberto Casati

Part IV. Other Errors: Recalcitrant Emotions and Misidentifications

12. Emotions, Perceptions, and Emotional Illusions
Christine Tappolet

13. Perceptual Misrecognition: A Kind of Illusion?
Jérôme Dokic

14. Seeing Double: Illusions of Identity in Delusional Disorders
Philip Gerrans

Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Aesthetics, Cognitive Psychology