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Perception and its modalities / edited by Dustin Stokes, Mohan Matthen, and Stephen Biggs.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Perception (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume is about the many ways we perceive. The chapters explore the nature of the individual senses, how and what they tell about the world, and how they interrelate. They consider how the senses extract perceptual content from receptoral information; what kinds of objects individuals perceive and whether multiple senses ever perceive a single event; how many senses people have, what makes one sense distinct from another, and whether and why distinguishing senses may be useful.
- Contents:
- Sorting the Senses; Part I New Models of Perception; 1. Perceiving as Predicting; 2. Active Perception and the Representation of Space; 3. Distinguishing Top-Down from Bottom-Up Effects; Part II Multimodal Perception; 4. Is Consciousness Multisensory?; 5. Not All Perceptual Experience Is Modality Specific; 6. Is Audio-Visual Perception 'Amodal' or 'Crossmodal'?; Part III The Nonvisual Senses; 7. What Counts as Touch?; 8. Sound Stimulants: Defending the Stable Disposition View; 9. Olfactory Objects; 10. Confusing Tastes with Flavours; Part IV Sensing Ourselves; 11. Inner Sense; Part V New Issues Concerning Vision; 12. The Diversity of Human Visual Experience; 13. A Crossmodal Perspective on Sensory Substitution; 14. The Dominance of the Visual; 15. More Color Science for Philosophers; Part VI Relating the Modalities; 16. Morphing Senses; 17. A Methodological Molyneux Question: Sensory Substitution, Plasticity, and the Unification of Perceptual Theory; 18. The Space of Sensory Modalities; 19 Distinguishing the Commonsense Senses.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 2, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-938160-7
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