Beyond vision : philosophical essays /
'Beyond Vision' brings together eight essays by Casey O'Callaghan which draw theoretical and philosophical lessons about perception, the nature of its objects, and sensory awareness. O'Callaghan focuses on auditory perception, perception of spoken language, and multisensory perce...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 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.