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Perception

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Café wall illusion • The horizontal lines are parallel

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Contributors

To be is to be perceived

Pierre is not here

Like riding a bike

More than meets the eye • “The whole is other than the sum of the parts.”

SEVEN LAWS

Shifting perspective

Perception

Hallucinations

Cartesian roommates

Seeing the good

CHECKER SHADOW ILLUSION

Our conscious perception

Staring at the shadows

NEWS OR PROPAGANDA? • Trust in the media in the US is in decline

Under the influence

Rubin’s vase

Pervasive illusions

Simultaneous Contrast Illusion

Phenomenology of Perception

CHARACTER VERSUS REPUTATION

PERCEPTION

Believing is seeing

Perception /pəˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/

Entrenched perceptions

Perfect perception

A perception of something

Perception • Is seeing believing? What is perception? Here are six thinkers’ views on how we perceive the world.

Dot & cross

Perceptual triggers

Chains of transmission • Here we present the winners of New Philosopher Writers’ Award XXVIII: Climate. We received a huge number of entries from around the world, from Reno to Oxford to Antwerp to Hobart. In first place is poet and writer Angela Smith for “Chains of transmission” and in second place is writer and researcher Dr Natasha Chassagne for “A better Anthropocene”.

A better Anthropocene

Writers’ award XXIX • Word length up to 1500 words, the winner receives $1,000 and the top two will have their work published in the next edition of New Philosopher.

Our library • Food for thought from the New Philosopher library. We discover books that can change the way you view the world.

Documentaries • To view the documentaries below and many others, visit newphilosopher.com/videos/

Around the web

Scintillating grid illusion

REALITY IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS

Baron Vaughn • In conversation with Zan Boag