Sympathy in perception / Mark Eli Kalderon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalderon, Mark Eli, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perception (Philosophy).

Metaphysics.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 213 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"The philosophy of perception has been an important topic throughout history, appealing to thinkers in antiquity and the middle ages as well as to figures such as Kant, Bergson and others. In this wide-ranging study, Mark Eli Kalderon presents multiple perspectives on the general nature of perception, discussing touch and hearing as well as vision. He draws on the rich history of the subject and shows how analytic and continental approaches to it are connected, providing readers with insights from both traditions and arguing for new orientations when thinking about the presentation of perception. His discussion addresses issues including tactile metaphors, sympathy in relation to the concept of fellow-feeling, and the Wave Theory of sound. His comprehensive and thoughtful study presents bold and systematic investigations into current theory, informed by centuries of philosophical enquiry, and will be important for those working on ontological and metaphysical aspects of perception and feeling"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. GRASPING

1.1. The Dawn of Understanding

1.2. Haptic Perception

1.3. The Protagorean Model

1.4. Assimilation

1.5. Shaping

1.6. Active Wax

1.7. A Puzzle.

2. SYMPATHY

2.1. Haptic Metaphysics

2.2. The Dependence upon Bodily Awareness

2.3. Against Haptic Indirect Realism

2.4. Sympathy

2.5. Sensing Limits

2.6. The Stoics

2.7. Plotinus

2.8. The Principle of Haptic Presentation.

3. SOUND

3.1. Moving Forward

3.2. The Berkeley-Heidegger Continuum

3.3. The Bearers of Audible Qualities

3.4. The Extent of the Audible

3.5. The Wave Theory

3.6. Auditory Perspective

3.7. Phenomenological Objections.

4. SOURCES

4.1. The Heideggerian Alternative

4.2. The Function of Audition

4.3. Sources and the Discrimination of Sound

4.4. Sympathy and Auditory Presentation

4.5. Listening.

5. VISION

5.1. The Biranian Principle

5.2. The Persistence of Extramission

5.3. The Truth in Extramission

5.4. Looking

5.5. Sympathy and Visual Presentation.

6. REALISM

6.1. Grasping and the Rhetoric of Objectivity

6.2. Perceptual Objectivity

6.3. Kantian Humility

6.4. Bergson contra Kant

6.5. Perceiving Things in Themselves.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Kalderon, Mark Eli, 1964- Sympathy in Perception.

ISBN:

9781108419604

1108419607

9781108411462

1108411460

OCLC:

1013992982