ABSTRACT

This collection of essays brings together research on sense modalities in general and spatial perception in particular in a systematic and interdisciplinary way. It updates a long-standing philosophical fascination with this topic by incorporating theoretical and empirical research from cognitive science, neuroscience, and psychology. The book is divided thematically to cover a wide range of established and emerging issues. Part I covers notions of objectivity and subjectivity in spatial perception and thinking. Part II focuses on the canonical distal senses, such as vision and audition. Part III concerns the chemical senses, including olfaction and gustation. Part IV discusses bodily awareness, peripersonal space, and touch. Finally, the volume concludes with Part V on multimodality. Spatial Senses is an important contribution to the scholarly literature on the philosophy of perception that takes into account important advances in the sciences.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

Sensing in and of Space

part I|39 pages

Twenty-First-Century Oxford Kantianism, or

part II|58 pages

Perceptual Magnitudes, Phenomenal Space, and Frames of Reference

part III|76 pages

Sounds, Smells, and Space

chapter 7|23 pages

Smellscapes

A Neurobiological and Ecological Perspective

part IV|67 pages

Body Spaces

chapter 10|16 pages

Spatial Certainty

Feeling Is the Truth

chapter 11|27 pages

Peripersonal Space

Its Functions, Plasticity, and Neural Basis

chapter 12|22 pages

On the Very Idea of a Tactile Field, or

A Plea for Skin Space

part V|81 pages

Molyneux’s Question and Multimodality

chapter 13|23 pages

Objectivity and Unity Across the Modalities

Molyneux’s Question Revisited

chapter 15|23 pages

Evaluating the Spatial Rule of Multisensory Integration

When Exactly Does Spatial Coincidence Matter?

chapter 16|23 pages

The Inside-Out Binding Problem