In Surfaces, Avrum Stroll does something that is rare: he provides novel answers to two age-old philosophical problem
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the epistemological problem of how perception is able to generate knowledge, and the metaphysical problem of what it is that we perceive... This is almost certain to be regarded as one of the major books dealing with philosophical issues of perception and can most profitably be compared with Roderick Chisholm’s classical work Perceiving.”