The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception is a survey by leading philosophical thinkers of contemporary issues and new thinking in philosophy of perception. It includes sections on the history of the subject, introductions to contemporary issues in the epistemology, ontology and aesthetics of perception, treatments of the individual sense modalities and of the things we perceive by means of them, and a consideration of how perceptual information is integrated and consolidated. New analytic tools and applications to other areas of philosophy are discussed in depth. Each of the forty-five entries is written by a leading expert, some collaborating with younger figures; each seeks to introduce the reader to a broad range of issues. All contain new ideas on the topics covered; together they demonstrate the vigour and innovative zeal of a young field. The book is accessible to anybody who has an intellectual interest in issues concerning perception.

Mohan Matthen studied Physics as an undergraduate at St. Stephen's College in Delhi, and took a PhD from Stanford University. He is currently Canada Research Chair in the Philosophy of Perception at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His current research is in philosophy of biology and philosophy of perception. He is working on a book that reconceptualises perception as an action, and on other topics around perception, including aesthetic pleasure and the proper way to understand secondary qualities.

- Introduction - I. Historical Background - 1: Victor Caston: Perception in Ancient Greek Philosophy - 2: Dominik Perler: Perception in Medieval Philosophy - 3: Baron Reed: Skepticism and Perception - 4: Alison Simmons: Perception in Early Modern Philosophy - 5: Gary Hatfield: Perception in Philosophy and Psychology in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries - 6: Paul Snowdon: Sense Data - 7: Charles Siewert: Phenomenological Approaches - II. Contemporary Philosophical Approaches - 8: Bence Nanay: Perceptual Representation/Perceptual Content - 9: Christopher Peacocke: Perception and the First Person - 10: Wayne Wright: Nonconceptual Content - 11: Heather Logue: Disjunctivism - 12: Pierre Jacob: Action Based Accounts - 13: Berit Brogaard: Perceptual Reports - III. The Senses - 14: David Hilbert: Vision - 15: Matt Nudds: Audition - 16: Frédérique de Vignemont and Olivier Massin: Touch - 17: Barry Smith: The Chemical Senses - 18: J. Brendan Ritchie and Peter Carruthers: The Bodily Senses - 19: Jesse Prinz: Unconscious perception - IV. What We Perceive - 20: Roberto Casati: Object Perception - 21: Peter Ross: Primary and Secondary Qualities - 22: Kathleen Akins and Martin Hahn: Colour - 23: Jérôme Dokic: Perception and Space - 24: Robin le Poidevin: Perception and Time - 25: Casey O'Callaghan: Speech Perception - 26: Charles Nussbaum: Musical Perception - 27: Alisa Mandrigin and Evan Thompson: Own Body Perception - 28: Valerie Gray Hardcastle: Pain - 29: Roy Sorensen: Perceiving Nothings - V. Integrating Sensory Information - 30: Mohan Matthen: Individuating the Senses - 31: John Campbell: Attention - 32: Tim Bayne and Charles Spence: Multisensory Perception - 33: Jonathan Cohen: Perceptual Constancy - 34: Malika Auvray and Ophelia Deroy: Synesthesia - 35: Julian Kiverstein, Mirko Farina, and Andy Clark: Substituting the Senses - VI. Frameworks for Perception - 36: Diana Raffman: Similarity Spaces - 37: Michael Rescorla: Bayesian Perceptual Psychology - 38: E. Samuel Winer and Michael Snodgrass: Signal Detection Theory - 39: John Kulvicki: Information Theory - 40: Ophelia Deroy: Modularity of Perception - VII. Broader Philosophical Issues - 41: Susanna Siegel and Nicholas Silins: The Epistemology of Perception - 42: Rob Goldstone and Lisa Byrge: Perceptual Learning - 43: Imogen Dickie: Perception and Demonstratives - 44: Brian Keeley: Nonhuman Animal Senses - 45: Dominic Lopes: Perception and Art