A Multisensory Philosophy of Perception

✍ Scribed by Casey O'Callaghan

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 236
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
A Multisensory Philosophy of Perception
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Contents
Acknowledgments
1: Introduction
1.1 Unisensory Approaches
1.1.1 Science
1.1.2 Philosophy
1.2 Sensory Interactions
1.3 Thesis
2: Processes
2.1 Crossmodal Illusions
2.2 Perception
2.3 Functioning
2.3.1 Crossmodal Illusions vs. Synesthesia
2.3.2 Principles
2.3.3 Benefits
2.3.4 Functions
2.3.5 Synopsis
2.4 Conclusion
2.5 Limitations
2.5.1 Capacities
2.5.2 Consciousness
3: Capacities
3.1 Capacities
3.2 Multisensory Capacities
3.2.1 Coordination
3.2.2 Binding and Identity
3.2.3 Novel Feature Instances
3.2.4 Novel Feature Types
3.2.5 Synopsis
3.3 Multisensory Perceptual Capacities
3.3.1 Empirical Psychology
3.3.2 Rational Psychology
3.4 Conclusions
3.5 Limitation
4: Awareness
4.1 Awareness
4.2 Perceptual Awareness
4.3 Multisensory Awareness
4.3.1 Belief
4.3.2 Action
4.3.3 Appearances
4.3.4 Dissociations
4.3.5 Associations
4.3.6 Attention
4.3.7 Synopsis
4.4 Conclusions
4.5 Limitation
5: Experience
5.1 Experience
5.2 Multisensory Experience
5.3 Being Sense Specific
5.4 The Argument
5.5 Phenomenal Differences
5.6 Skepticism
5.7 Indiscriminability
5.8 Qualities
5.9 Conclusions
5.10 Limitations
5.10.1 Uniqueness
5.10.2 The Senses
6: Senses
6.1 Senses as Capacities
6.2 Individuating Senses
6.3 Ways of Perceiving
6.4 The Significance of the Senses
6.5 Taxonomic Payoff
6.6 Episodes
6.7 Experiences
6.8 Features
6.9 Knowledge of Modality
6.10 Synopsis
6.11 Conclusion
7: Conclusion
7.1 Processes
7.1.1 Function
7.1.2 Capacities
7.2 Consciousness
7.2.1 Awareness
7.2.2 Experience
7.3 Taxonomy
7.3.1 Senses
7.3.2 Perception
7.4 Consequences
7.4.1 Negative
7.4.2 Positive
7.5 Coda
References
Index