The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception

1232 Pages·2015·5.37 MB·English

by  Mohan Matthen

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Front Matter
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception
List of Contributors
Introduction
Mohan Matthen
Part I Historical Background
Perception in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Victor Caston
Perception in Medieval Philosophy
Dominik Perler
Skepticism and Perception
Baron Reed
Perception in Early Modern Philosophy
Alison Simmons
Perception in Philosophy and Psychology in the 19th and Early 20th
Centuries
Gary Hatfield
Sense­Data
Paul Snowdon
Phenomenological Approaches
Charles Siewert
Part II Contemporary Philosophical Approaches
Perceptual Representation/Perceptual Content
Bence Nanay
Perception and the First Person
Christopher Peacocke
Nonconceptual Content
Wayne Wright
Disjunctivism
Heather Logue1
Action­Based Accounts of Perception
Pierre Jacob
Perceptual Reports
Berit Brogaard
Part III The Senses
Vision
David R. Hilbert
Audition
Matthew Nudds
Touch
Frédérique de Vignemont and Olivier Massin
The Chemical Senses
Barry C. Smith
The Bodily Senses
J. Brendan Ritchie and Peter Carruthers
Unconscious Perception
Jesse J. Prinz
Part IV What We Perceive
Object Perception
Roberto Casati
Primary and Secondary Qualities
Peter Ross
Colour Perception
Kathleen Akins and Martin Hahn
Perception and Space
Jérôme Dokic
Perception and Time
Robin Le Poidevin
Speech Perception
Casey O’Callaghan
Musical Perception
Charles Nussbaum
Own­Body Perception
Alisa Mandrigin and Evan Thompson
Perception of Pain
Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Perceiving Nothings
Roy Sorensen
Part V Integrating Sensory Information
The Individuation of the Senses
Mohan Matthen
Perceptual Attention
John Campbell
Multisensory Perception
Tim Bayne and Charles Spence
Perceptual Constancy
Jonathan Cohen
How Do Synaesthetes Experience the World?
Malika Auvray and Ophelia Deroy1
Substituting the Senses
Julian Kiverstein, Mirko Farina, and Andy Clark
Part VI Frameworks for Perception
Similarity Spaces
Diana Raffman
Bayesian Perceptual Psychology
Michael Rescorla
Signal Detection Theory
E. Samuel Winer and Michael Snodgrass
Information Theory
John Kulvicki
Modularity of Perception
Ophelia Deroy
Part VII Broader Philosophical Issues
The Epistemology of Perception
Susanna Siegel and Nicholas Silins
Perceptual Learning
Robert L. Goldstone and Lisa A. Byrge
Perception and Demonstratives
Imogen Dickie
Nonhuman Animal Senses
Brian L. Keeley
Perception and Art
Dominic McIver Lopes
End Matter
Author Index
Subject Index
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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception
Edited by Mohan Matthen
Print Publication Date: Jul 2015 Subject: Philosophy Online Publication Date: Sep 2015
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List of Contributors
Oxford Handbooks Online
List of Contributors

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception
Edited by Mohan Matthen
Print Publication Date: Jul 2015 Subject: Philosophy Online Publication Date: Sep 2015
List of Contributors
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Kathleen Akins Simon Fraser University
Malika Auvray CNRS-CR
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Tim Bayne University of Manchester
Berit Brogaard University of Miami
Lisa A. Byrge Indiana University
John Campbell University of California, Berkeley
Peter Carruthers University of Maryland
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List of Contributors
Roberto Casati École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Victor Caston University of Michigan
Andy Clark The University of Edinburgh
Jonathan Cohen University of California, San Diego
Ophelia Deroy University of London
Imogen Dickie University of Toronto
Jérôme Dokic École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Institut Jean-
Nicod
Mirko Farina Macquarie University
Robert L. Goldstone Indiana University
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Martin Hahn Simon Fraser University
Valerie Gray Hardcastle University of Cincinnati
Gary Hatfield University of Pennsylvania
David R. Hilbert University of Illinois at Chicago
Pierre Jacob École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Brian L. Keeley Pitzer College
Julian Kiverstein University of Amsterdam
John Kulvicki Dartmouth College
Robin Le Poidevin University of Leeds
(p. x) Heather Logue University of Leeds
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List of Contributors
Dominic McIver Lopes University of British Columbia
Alisa Mandrigin University of Warwick
Olivier Massin Université de Genève
Mohan Matthen University of Toronto
Bence Nanay University of Antwerp and University of Cambridge
Matthew Nudds University of Warwick
Charles Nussbaum University of Texas at Arlington
Casey O’Callaghan Washington University in St Louis
Christopher Peacocke Columbia University
Dominik Perler Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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