The Senses and the History of Philosophy

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
General introduction
	The problem of history
	“Historical” periods
	Problems of perception
	Global problem 1: mind the gap
	Global problem 2: sensory fails
	Global problem 3: sensory integration
	Bibliography
PART I: Problems of perception from non-Western perspectives
	Introduction to Part I
		Bibliography
	1. Chinese theories of perception and the structural approach to comprehension
		The concept li as structure or structural pattern
		Basic precondition of perception: the merging of internal and external structures
		The notion of structure in modern China: a revitalization of forgotten ideas
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	2. Perception and its disorders in early China
		What we perceive
		Perception and knowledge
		The objects of the senses
		Perceiving mental states and intentions
		Perceiving moral qualities of a situation
		Perceiving the Dao
		Problems of perception
		Disorders of the heart
		Disorders of names
		Conclusion: radical perceptual error?
		Notes
		Bibliography
	3. Perception in Nya-ya
		Perception and knowledge
		Objects perceived
		Yogic perception and self-awareness
		Bibliography
PART II: Problems of perception in ancient philosophy
	Introduction to Part II
		Bibliography
	4. Two puzzles in post-Aristotelian theories of vision
		The Stoic extramission theory
		The first puzzle
		The Epicurean intromission theory
		The second puzzle
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		Bibliography
	5. Plotinus on perception
		The soul and the objects of perception
		Categorical difference
		The ontological intermediary: the sense organs
		Plato’s influence on Plotinus’s account of perception
		The mechanism of perception
		Plotinus’ perceptual intermediary
		Intermediate uniformity: lessons from Aristotle?
		Has Plotinus solved the categorial gap problem?
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		Bibliography
PART III: Problems of perception in medieval philosophyh
	Introduction to Part III
		Bibliography
	6. Perceptual errors in late medieval philosophy
		Roger That
		My bad
		Skeptical worries
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	7. What is in the mirror?: The metaphysics of mirror images in Albert the Great and Peter Auriol
		The Multiplication Account: Albert the Great
		The Unification Account: Peter Auriol
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	8. Peter Auriol and Adam Wodeham on perception and judgment
		Auriol and the Apparent Being
		Wodeham on Sensory Illusions
		Human and Animal Perception and Behavior
		Perception and Knowledge
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
PART IV: Problems of perception in early modern philosophyh
	Introduction to Part IV
		Bibliography
	9. Anton Wilhelm Amo and the problems of perception
		Amo’s project
		Mental impassivity
		Active mind
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	10. Locke on Molyneux’s question and perceptual concepts of shape
		Locke’s account of the visual identification of 3D figures
		Can the visual perception of 3D figures be direct?
		Locke on simple and complex ideas of space
		The 2D Molyneux question
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		Bibliography
	11. Berkeley’s account of extension and its place in vision science
		Sensory orders
		Berkeley’s sensory orderings
		Berkeley’s explications
		Berkeley on orientation and situation
		The Molyneux Problem
		Berkeley on organization
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	12. Berkeley versus Reid on the moon illusion
		The shared background: the perception by sight of distance and size
		Two explanations of the moon illusion: apparent distance and faintness
		What is it to look large?
		Notes
		Bibliography
	13. Informed by “sense and reason”: Margaret Cavendish’s theorizing about perception
		Cavendish’s natural philosophy
		Sensitive and rational perception as patterning
		Objections to Hobbes’ pressure model of perception
		Further problems for Cavendish’s account
		Notes
		Bibliography
PART V: Problems of perception in the post-Kantian period
	Introduction to Part V
		Bibliography
	14. Husserl takes santonin: Abnormality, embodiment, and intersubjectivity
		Husserl on perception and abnormality
		The body as medium of perception
		Global and perceiver-relative perceptual content
		Abnormality and intersubjectivity
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		Bibliography
	15. Molyneux’s question: Out of touch with the “world of the blind”
		Testimonial injustice
		Husson’s “none” answer to Molyneux’s question
		Villey’s “inverse question” answer to Molyneux’s question
		Perspective and spatiality
		Villey’s question
		The classic view
		A general problem with the classic view
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		Bibliography
PART VI: Problems of perception in contemporary philosophy
	Introduction to Part VI
		Bibliography
	16. Visual categorization
		Cognitive penetrability
		Vision science
		(All-things-considered) judgments vs. perceptual judgments
		Experience, perceptual judgments, and cognitive penetration
		Notes
		Bibliography
	17. Perceiving surfaces (and what they depict)
		The options in play
		The surface
		Perceiving surfaces: the argument
		Special pictures and viewing conditions
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		Bibliography
	18. It’s not as bad as you think: Olfaction and informational richness
		Informational richness: the intraspecies comparison
		Informational richness: the interspecies comparison
		Informational richness: further variations
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	19. Molyneux, neuroplasticity, and technologies of sensory substitution
		Sensory-substitution systems: a kind of “seeing”?
		Molyneux in the age of neuroplasticity
		Neuroplasticity in sensory substitution
		Conclusion: touch-like vision and vision-like touch
		Bibliography
Index