Although current debates in epistemology and philosophy of mind show a renewed interest in perceptual illusions, there is no systematic work in the philosophy of perception and in the psychology of perception with respect to the concept of illusion and the relation between illusion and error. This book aims to fill that gap.

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IVANA BIANCHI Associate Professor of General Psychology at the University of Macerata, Department of Educational Sciences, Italy NICOLA BRUNO Full Professor of Psychology at the University of Parma, Italy ROBERTO CASATI Tenured senior researcher with the French Centre National de la Recherche Scienti?que (CNRS-EHESS-ENS), Paris, France JÉRÔME DOKIC Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and a member of Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, France PHILIP GERRANS Reader in the Philosophy Department at the University of Adelaide, Australia MICHAEL KUBOVY Full Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia, USA BARRY MAUND Professor in the Philosophy Department at The University of Western Australia ELENA PASQUINELLI Researcher at the Département d'études cognitives, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, France HELEN ROSS Honorary Reader in Psychology at the University of Stirling, Scotland, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Psychological Society UGO SAVARDI Full Professor of General Psychology at the University of Verona, Department of Philosophy, Education and Psychology, Italy ROBERT SCHWARTZ Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA PAOLO SPINICCI Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Milan, Italy CHRISTINE TAPPOLET Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Meta-ethics and Full Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Université de Montréal, Canada ALBERTO VOLTOLINI Philosopher of language and mind. He is currently Professor of Philosophy of Mind at the University of Turin, Italy

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; C.Calabi PART I: WHAT IS AN ILLUSION? The Illusion of Visual Illusions; R.Schwartz Illusions that We Should Have (but don't); N.Bruno The Awareness of Illusions; E.Pasquinelli The Genesis of the Awareness of Illusions; U.Savardi , M.Kubovy & I.Bianchi PART II: VERIDICAL PERCEPTIONS Perceptual Constancies: Illusions and Veridicality; B.Maund Is the Moon Illusion an Illusion?; H.Ross Cats! Michotte's New Enigma of Perception; C.Calabi PART III: DO PICTURES AND MIRRORS FOOL THE EYE? Trompe l' il and the Nature of Pictures; P.Spinicci Towards a Synchretist Theory of Depiction (How to Account for the Illusionistic Aspect of Pictorial Mirrors, Illusions and Epistemic Innocence; R.Casati PART IV: OTHER ERRORS: RECALCITRANT EMOTIONS AND MISIDENTIFICATIONS Emotions, Perceptions and Emotional Illusions; C.Tappolet Perceptual Misrecognition: A Kind Of Illusion?; J.Dokic Seeing Double: Illusions of Identity in Delusional Disorders; P.Gerrans Index