This volume is about the many ways we perceive. In nineteen new essays, philosophers and cognitive scientists explore the nature of the individual senses, how and what they tell us about the world, and how they interrelate. They consider how the senses extract perceptual content from receptoral information and what kinds of objects we perceive and whether multiple senses ever perceive a single event. Questions pertaining to how many senses we have, what makes one sense distinct from another, and whether and why distinguishing senses may be useful feature prominently. Contributors examine the extent to which the senses act in concert, rather than as discrete modalities, and whether this influence is epistemically pernicious, neutral, or beneficial.
Many of the essays engage with the idea that it is unduly restrictive to think of perception as a collation of contents provided by individual sense modalities. Rather, contributors contend that to understand perception properly we need to build into our accounts the idea that the senses work together. In doing so, they aim to develop better paradigms for understanding the senses and thereby to move toward a better understanding of perception.
About the Editors About the Contributors
New Models of Perception 1. Perceiving as Predicting Andy Clark 2. Active Perception and the Representation of Space Mohan Matthen 3. Distinguishing Top-Down From Bottom-Up Effects Nicholas Shea
Multimodal Perception 4. Is Consciousness Multisensory? Charles Spence and Tim Bayne 5. Not all perceptual experience is modality specific Casey O'Callaghan 6. Is audio-visual perception 'amodal' or 'crossmodal'? Matthew Nudds
The Non-Visual Senses 7. What Counts as Touch? Matthew Fulkerson 8. Sound stimulants: defending the stable disposition view John Kulvicki 9. Olfactory Objects Clare Batty 10. Confusing Tastes with Flavours Charles Spence, Malika Auvrlc¶
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