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The senses : classical and contemporary philosophical perspectives /

The senses, or sensory modalities, constitute the different ways we have of perceiving the world, such as seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling. But how many senses are there? How many could there be? What makes the senses different? What interaction takes place between the senses? This bo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Macpherson, Fiona
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2011.
Colección:Philosophy of mind series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; INTRODUCTION; 1 Individuating the Senses; SECTION I: CLASSIC WORKS; 2 Excerpt from On the Soul (De Anima); 3 Aristotle on Demarcating the Five Senses; 4 Some Remarks About the Senses; 5 Distinguishing the Senses; 6 The Senses of Martians; 7 The Senses, excerpt from Perception and Cognition; 8 Characterising the Senses; 9 Categorising the Senses; 10 Sight and Touch; 11 Making Sense of the Senses: Individuating Modalities in Humans and Other Animals; SECTION II: NEW WORKS; 12 On the Nature of the Senses; 13 Re-imagining, Re-Viewing and Re-Touching.
  • 14 The Senses15 A Proprioceptive Account of the Sense Modalities; 16 The Senses as Psychological Kinds; 17 Tastes, Temperatures, and Pains; 18 The Sense of Agency; 19 Cross-Modal Cuing and Selective Attention; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y.