Most of the time people perceive using multiple senses. Out walking, we see colors and motion, hear chatter and footsteps, smell petrichor after rain, feel a breeze or the brush of a shoulder. We use our senses together to navigate and learn about the world. In spite of this, scientists and philosophers alike have merely focused on one sense at a time. Nearly every theory of perception is unisensory. This book instead offers a revisionist multisensory philosophy of perception. Casey O'Callaghan considers how our senses work together, in contrast with how they work separately and independently, and how one sense can impact another, leading to surprising perceptual illusions. The joint use of multiple senses, he argues, enables novel forms of perception and experience, such as multisensory rhythms, motions, and flavors that enrich aesthetic experiences of music, dance, and gustatory pleasure.
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Casey O'Callaghan offers a revisionist multisensory philosophy of perception: he explores how our senses work together and influence each other, leading to surprising perceptual illusions and novel forms of experience.
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1: Introduction 2: Processes 3: Capacities 4: Awareness 5: Experience 6: Senses 7: Conclusion
Casey O'Callaghan is Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. His publications include Sounds: A Philosophical Theory (OUP, 2007) and Beyond Vision: Philosophical Essays (OUP, 2017). He is also the co-editor of Sounds and Perception: New Philosophical Essays (OUP 2009, with Matthew Nudds).
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Offers a novel multisensory approach to key issues in the philosophy of perception Argues that human sense perception and perceptual consciousness are richly multisensory Presents an account of latest theoretically-relevant results from multisensory perception science Topics bear on perceptual processes, treating empirical science, capacities, consciousness, awareness, phenomenology, and the perception-cognition distinction
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780192859631
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
292 gr
Høyde
215 mm
Bredde
134 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

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Biografisk notat

Casey O'Callaghan is Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. His publications include Sounds: A Philosophical Theory (OUP, 2007) and Beyond Vision: Philosophical Essays (OUP, 2017). He is also the co-editor of Sounds and Perception: New Philosophical Essays (OUP 2009, with Matthew Nudds).