Beyond vision : philosophical essays

Content: Cover
 Beyond Vision
 Copyright
 Dedication
 Preface
 Contents
 Acknowledgments
 List of Figures
 Introduction
 1: Constructing a Theory of Sounds
 Sounds and Vision
 What Kind of Thing is a Sound?
 Sounds as Properties
 Sounds as Waves
 The Locations of Sounds
 Duration
 Sounds as Events
 Sound-Related Phenomena: Interference, Echoes, and Doppler Effects
 Concluding Remarks
 2: Object Perception: Vision and Audition
 Objects in Perception
 The Case for Objects
 What is a Visual Object?
 Auditory Objects
 Perceptual Objects
 3: Seeing What You Hear: Crossmodal Illusions and Perception IntroductionA Puzzle about Audition
 The Composite Snapshot Conception
 Crossmodal Illusions
 Explaining Crossmodal Illusions
 Crossmodal Perceptual Experience
 The Puzzle and Its Source
 Perceiving Across the Modalities
 Seeing Through the Senses
 4: Lessons from Beyond Vision
 Motivation
 Vision, Objects, and Directness
 Audition and Indirectness
 The Diversity of Perceptual Objects
 Multimodality
 Part 1
 Part 2
 Recap of the Lessons
 5: Hearing Properties, Effects, or Parts?
 Hearing Sounds and Hearing Sources
 Properties?
 Effects?
 Hearing sources mediately
 Against hearing causality PartsConclusion
 6: Against Hearing Meanings
 An Experiential Difference
 Grasping Meanings
 The Semantic Perceptual Account
 Its Commitments
 The Argument from Homophones
 An Alternative Account
 Non-Semantic Features
 Conclusion
 7: Intermodal Binding Awareness
 Feature Binding Awareness
 Intramodal Feature Binding Awareness
 Intermodal Feature Binding Awareness
 Evidence for Intermodal Feature Binding Awareness
 Perceptual judgment
 Perception-guided action
 Empirical research
 Perceptual appearances
 Perceptual phenomenology
 Summary
 Consequences Perception is not just minimally multimodalPhenomenal character is not locally distinctive
 Objections and Replies
 Singular contents
 Binding and infusion
 Multimodal perceptual objects
 Conclusions
 8: The Multisensory Character of Perception
 Multimodality
 Distinctiveness
 Unimodality
 Novel features
 Flavor
 Modalities
 References
 Index