The Senses

Classic and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-538597-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 814 g

Reihe: Philosophy of Mind Series

The senses, or sensory modalities, constitute the different ways we have of perceiving the world, such as seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling. But how many senses are there? How many could there be? What makes the senses different? What interaction takes place between the senses? This book is a guide to thinking about these questions. Together with an extensive introduction to the topic, the book contains the key classic papers on this subject together
with nine newly commissioned essays.
One reason that these questions are important is that we are receiving a huge influx of new information from the sciences that challenges some traditional philosophical views about the senses. This information needs to be incorporated into our view of the senses and perception. Can we do this whilst retaining our pre-existing concepts of the senses and of perception or do we need to revise our concepts? If they need to be revised, then in what way should that be done? Research in diverse areas,
such as the nature of human perception, varieties of non-human animal perception, the interaction between different sensory modalities, perceptual disorders, and possible treatments for them, calls into question the platitude that there are five senses, as well as the pre-supposition that we know
what we are counting when we count them as five (or more).
This book will serve as an inspiring introduction to the topic and as a basis from which further new research will grow.

Zielgruppe

The market will be scholars in philosophy of mind, as well as students particularly in graduate seminars.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Macpherson, Fiona

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1.: Individuating the Senses- Fiona Macpherson
Section 1: Classic Papers
2.: Excerpt from On the Soul- Aristotle
3.: Aristotle on Demarcating the Five Senses- Richard Sorabji
4.: Some Remarks About the Senses- H. P. Grice
5.: Distinguishing the Senses- J. W. Roxbee Cox
6.: The Senses of Martians- C. A. J. Coady
7.: The Senses, excerpt from Perception and Cognition- John Heil
8.: Characterising the Senses- Mark Leon
9.: Categorising the Senses- Norton Nelkin
10.: Sight and Touch- M. G. F. Martin
Section 2: New Papers
11.: On the Nature of the Senses- Richard Gray
12.: Re-imagining, Re-Viewing and Re-Touching- Robert Hopkins
13.: The Senses- John Heil
14.: A Proprioceptive Account of the Sensory Modalities- John O'Dea
15.: The Senses as Psychological Kinds- Matthew Nudds
16.: Tastes, Temperatures, and Pains- A. D. Smith
17.: The Sense of Agency- Tim Bayne
18.: Cross Modal Cuing and Selective Attention- Austen Clark
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fiona Macpherson is Senior Lecturer, Director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, and Director of Postgraduate Studies