Perception and Its Modalities
Dustin Stokes, Mohan Matthen, and Stephen Biggs
Abstract
This volume is about the many ways we perceive. The chapters explore the nature of the individual senses, how and what they tell about the world, and how they interrelate. They consider how the senses extract perceptual content from receptoral information; what kinds of objects individuals perceive and whether multiple senses ever perceive a single event; how many senses people have, what makes one sense distinct from another, and whether and why distinguishing senses may be useful. They consider the extent to which the senses act in concert, and whether this influence is epistemically pernici ... More
This volume is about the many ways we perceive. The chapters explore the nature of the individual senses, how and what they tell about the world, and how they interrelate. They consider how the senses extract perceptual content from receptoral information; what kinds of objects individuals perceive and whether multiple senses ever perceive a single event; how many senses people have, what makes one sense distinct from another, and whether and why distinguishing senses may be useful. They consider the extent to which the senses act in concert, and whether this influence is epistemically pernicious, neutral, or beneficial. They explore the familiar five sense modalities and other candidate sense modalities, including a sense for flavor, inner senses (e.g. a sense for pain), and various senses that may result from using sensory substitution devices. All contributors agree that traditional theorizing about the senses is hampered by a neglect of the senses other than vision and by the misconception that vision is a passive receptacle for an image thrown by a lens. Many of the contributors believe that it is unduly restrictive to think of perception as a collation of contents provided by individual sense modalities; they think that for perception to be properly understood we must think of the senses as working together.
Keywords:
sense modalities,
crossmodal,
perception,
multisensory,
sensory substitution,
nonvisual perception,
sensory integration
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199832798 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2014 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199832798.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Dustin Stokes, editor
University of Utah
Mohan Matthen, editor
University of Toronto
Stephen Biggs, editor
Iowa State University
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