Perception and Its Modalities

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Dustin Stokes (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah) Mohan Matthen (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto)

Perception and Its Modalities

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ISBN: 9780199832798

Dustin Stokes (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah), Mohan Matthen (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto), Stephen Biggs (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Iowa State University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
11 December 2014

Philosophy; Philosophy of mind; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Perception

This volume is about the many ways we perceive. In nineteen new essays, philosophers and cognitive scientists explore the nature of the individual senses, how and what they tell us about the world, and how they interrelate. They consider how the senses extract perceptual content from receptoral information and what kinds of objects we perceive and whether multiple senses ever perceive a single event. Questions pertaining to how many senses we have, what makes one sense distinct from another, and whether and why distinguishing senses may be useful feature prominently. Contributors examine the extent to which the senses act in concert, rather than as discrete modalities, and whether this influence is epistemically pernicious, neutral, or beneficial. Many of the essays engage with the idea that it is unduly restrictive to think of perception as a collation of contents provided by individual sense modalities. Rather, contributors contend that to understand perception properly we need to build into our accounts the idea that the senses work together. In doing so, they aim to develop better paradigms for understanding the senses and thereby to move toward a better understanding of perception.

Edited by: Dustin Stokes (Assistant Professor of Philosophy Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Utah), Mohan Matthen (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto), Stephen Biggs (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Iowa State University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 163mm, Width: 236mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 842g
ISBN: 9780199832798
ISBN 10: 019983279X
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 11 December 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dustin Stokes, Mohan Matthen, and Stephen Biggs are philosophers of mind who work on a range of related issues, including sense modalities and their interaction, perception and cognition, problems of consciousness, and methods of reasoning. They collaborate on these and other philosophical topics, and also work closely with empirical researchers in the cognitive sciences.

Reviews for Perception and Its Modalities

'It is partly the diversity of this anthology that will make it a very useful read for someone looking for a topic on which to write a PhD thesis in the philosophy of perception. But it will also be useful for such a reader because Perception and its Modalities makes clear how much work there is left to do in this area of philosophy..."" --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online