O'Callaghan's writing is lucid, clear, and engaging throughout. He displays laudable energy in considering puzzles raised by the empirical literature, and considerable determination to seeing through aspects of the project inaugurated by his earlier monograph. As O'Callaghan makes clear, there is considerably more to be explored and more to learn ... I would recommend it to anyone interested in contemporary philosophy of perception.
Mark Eli Kalderon, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Beyond Vision brings together eight essays by Casey O'Callaghan. The works draw theoretical and philosophical lessons about perception, the nature of its objects, and sensory awareness through sustained attention to extra-visual and multisensory forms of perception and perceptual consciousness. O'Callaghan focuses on auditory perception, perception of spoken language, and multisensory perception. The first essays concern the nature of audition's objects, focusing on sounds, especially drawing attention to the ways in which they contrast with vision's objects. The middle essays explore forms of auditory perception that could not be explained without understanding audition's interactions with other senses. This bridges work on sound perception with work on multisensory perception, and it raises multisensory perception as an important topic for understanding perception even in a single modality. The last essays are devoted to multisensory perception and perceptual consciousness. They argue that no complete account of perception overall or of multisensory perceptual consciousness can be developed in modality-specific terms-perceiving amounts to more than just seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling at the same time. The final essay presents a new framework for understanding what it is to be modality-specific or to be multisensory.
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Beyond Vision brings together eight essays by Casey O'Callaghan which draw theoretical and philosophical lessons about perception, the nature of its objects, and sensory awareness. O'Callaghan focuses on auditory perception, perception of spoken language, and multisensory perception.
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Introduction
1: Constructing a Theory of Sounds
2: Object Perception: Vision and Audition
3: Seeing What You Hear: Cross-Modal Illusions and Perception
4: Lessons from Beyond Vision
5: Hearing Properties, Effects, or Parts?
6: Against Hearing Meanings
7: Intermodal Binding Awareness
8: The Multisensory Character of Perception
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First time these essays by Casey O'Callaghan have been brought together in an edited volume, drawing together ground-breaking work in a flourishing area of research
Includes central topics in perception beyond that of just vision
Explains how current work in psychology, cognitive science and neuroscience does and does not bear on philosophical issues concerning perceptual consciousness and awareness
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Casey O'Callaghan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. O'Callaghan's research aims at an empirically informed philosophical understanding of perception that is driven by thinking about non-visual modalities and the relationships among the senses. His publications have focused upon auditory perception, speech perception, and the theoretical import of multimodality, cross-modal perceptual illusions, and synesthesia.
O'Callaghan is author of Sounds: A Philosophical Theory (Oxford, 2007). He received a B.A. in Philosophy and Cognitive Science from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton University.
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First time these essays by Casey O'Callaghan have been brought together in an edited volume, drawing together ground-breaking work in a flourishing area of research
Includes central topics in perception beyond that of just vision
Explains how current work in psychology, cognitive science and neuroscience does and does not bear on philosophical issues concerning perceptual consciousness and awareness
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ISBN
9780198782964
Published
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
468 gr
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240 mm
Width
161 mm
Thickness
19 mm
Age
UP, 05
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Engelsk
Format
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Innbundet
Number of pages
218
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