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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Nearly every theory of perception just focuses on one sense at a time; but most of the time we perceive using multiple senses. 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
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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Casey O'Callaghan is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. His publications include Sounds: A Philosophical Theory (Oxford 2007) and Beyond Vision: Philosophical Essays (Oxford 2017). He is also the co-editor of Sounds and Perception: New Philosophical Essays (Oxford 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
9780198833703
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
402 gr
Høyde
213 mm
Bredde
141 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
236

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Biografisk notat

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