Description
This volume is about the many ways we perceive. In nineteen new essays, philosophers and cognitive scientists explore the nature of the individual senses, how and what they tell us about the world, and how they interrelate. They consider how the senses extract perceptual content from receptoral information and what kinds of objects we perceive and whether multiple senses ever perceive a single event. Questions pertaining to how many senses we have, what makes one sense distinct from another, and whether and why distinguishing senses may be useful feature prominently. Contributors examine the extent to which the senses act in concert, rather than as discrete modalities, and whether this influence is epistemically pernicious, neutral, or beneficial.Many of the essays engage with the idea that it is unduly restrictive to think of perception as a collation of contents provided by individual sense modalities. Rather, contributors contend that to understand perception properly we need to build into our accounts the idea that the senses work together. In doing so, they aim to develop better paradigms for understanding the senses and thereby to move toward a better understanding of perception.
Table of Contents
About the EditorsAbout the ContributorsNew Models of Perception1. Perceiving as PredictingAndy Clark2. Active Perception and the Representation of SpaceMohan Matthen3. Distinguishing Top-Down From Bottom-Up EffectsNicholas SheaMultimodal Perception4. Is Consciousness Multisensory?Charles Spence and Tim Bayne5. Not all perceptual experience is modality specificCasey O'Callaghan6. Is audio-visual perception 'amodal' or 'crossmodal'?Matthew NuddsThe Non-Visual Senses7. What Counts as Touch?Matthew Fulkerson8. Sound stimulants: defending the stable disposition viewJohn Kulvicki9. Olfactory ObjectsClare Batty10. Confusing Tastes with FlavoursCharles Spence, Malika Auvray, and Barry SmithSensing Ourselves11. Inner SenseVincent Picciuto and Peter CarruthersNew Issues Concerning Vision12. The Diversity of Human Visual ExperienceHoward C. Hughes, Robert Fendrich and Sarah E. Streeter13. A crossmodal perspective on sensory substitutionOphelia Deroy and Malika Auvray14. The dominance of the visualDustin Stokes and Stephen Biggs15. More Color Science for PhilosophersC. L. HardinRelating the Modalities16. Morphing SensesErik Myin, Ed Cooke, and Karim Zahidi17. A Methodological Molyneux Question: Sensory Substitution, Plasticity and theUnification of Perceptual TheoryMazviita Chirimuuta and Mark Paterson18. The Space of Sensory ModalitiesFiona Macpherson19. Distinguishing the Commonsense SensesRoberto Casati, Jérôme Dokic, and François Le CorreIndex
