Schopenhauer’s account of sense perception contains an acute critique of Kant’s theory of cognition. His analysis of the role of the understanding in perception may be closer to Kant’s than he ...

THE recent symposium* and discussion on “Sense Perception and the Evolution of Colour and Pattern” held under the auspices of Section D (Zoology) of the British Association at Cambridge directs ...

My parents and I used to eat at a restaurant where I would spend the entire dinner interrogating them why in the world the lights were so dim. Displaying great patience (or maybe great hunger), they ...

IN the very interesting address of Prof. C. von Nägeli at Munich, on “The Limits of Natural Knowledge,” of which a first portion is printed by you (NATURE, vol. xvi. p. 531), in illustration of his ...

A dream about a butterfly in ancient China triggered debates about perception and reality for over two millennia. Source: Calvin Mano / Unsplash During the warm summer months in ancient China, the ...