Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. What Are Surfaces? -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1. Where Are the Edges? -- 2. Surfaces and the External World -- 3. Additional Puzzles -- 4. Plan of the Book: Substance and Methodology -- Chapter 2. What Are Surfaces? -- 1. Talk about Marbles -- 2. Two Necessary Truths about Surfaces -- 3. More Complicated Cases -- 4. On Things That Don't Have Surfaces -- 5. Some Preliminary Results -- Chapter 3. Two, Maybe Four, Conceptions of Surfaces -- 1. Leonardo Surfaces -- 2. Another Conception of Surfaces as Abstractions -- 3. P-Surfaces -- 4. Somorjai Surfaces and the Scientific Conception -- 5. How the OS and SS Conceptions Differ -- 6. A-Surfaces and P-Surfaces -- Part II. Surfaces and Perception -- Chapter 4. Direct Realism -- 1. Knowledge, Perception, and Surfaces -- 2. Is It Possible to See Something without Seeing Its Surface? -- 3. Can One See the Surface of X without Seeing X? -- 4. Is Talk about P-Surfaces Otiose? -- 5. Magnification and Resolution -- 6. A Second Type of Case -- 7. What Is Wrong with the Traditional Theories? -- Chapter 5. On Seeing More Than Something's Surface -- 1. The Blocking Role of Surfaces -- 2. Three Contrasts -- 3. Three Theories -- Chapter 6. Clarke's Argument -- 1. Seeing as a Unit Concept -- 2. Is the HM Fact Spurious? -- 3. Four Criticisms of Clarke's Argument -- Chapter 7. Gibson's Ecological Approach -- 1. Gibson and the Philosophical Tradition -- 2. Gibson's Ecological Account -- 3. Gibson's Theory of Vision -- 4. Assessment of Gibson -- Chapter 8. Piecemeal Realism -- 1. Realism and Direct Realism -- 2. The Contemporary Scene: Direct vs. Representative Realism -- 3. Intermediaries -- 4. Directly and Indirectly -- 5. Scratching Directly and Seeing Directly -- 6. Seeing Indirectly: The Problem of "Other Faces" -- 7. Seeing in Normal Circumstances -- 8. Piecemeal Realism.

Part III. The Geometry of Ordinary Speech -- Chapter 9. Surfaces and Faces -- 1. Regrouping -- 2. Five Shared Characteristics -- 3. That Latin Connection Reconsidered -- 4. A Rather Surprising Conclusion -- Chapter 10. Boundaries -- 1. Embodiment and Representation -- 2. The Geometry of Ordinary Speech -- 3. Linear Extensions and Spreads -- 4. A Question Answered -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- U -- V -- W.