Abstract
The relationship between the senses has been of interest to philosophers for centuries: with Empiricists such as Berkley and Locke focusing on how the individual sensory (e.g., visual and tactile) experiences contribute to people’s knowledge about the world around them. And in contrast, Phenomenologists such as Merleau-Ponty arguing that there is no visual and no tactile experience, but rather a total sensory experience from which it is impossible to single out individual visual and/or tactile contributions. Essential to the first philosophers was the understanding of extremes in sensory perception, comparing “the blind” with “the sighted”.
| Original language | English |
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| Type | SmartSense Toro Graven's blog on sound and vision published by University of Edinburgh |
| Media of output | Online Blog |
| Publisher | The University of Edinburgh |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Place of Publication | Edinburgh |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2023 |
Publication series
| Name | SmartSense |
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| Publisher | University of Edinburgh |
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Keywords
- blind
- deaf
- sensory perception
- cross-modal transfer
- Hume
- Locke
- Berkeley
- philosophy of mind
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