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.

1 - Perception in Ancient Greek Philosophy
2 - Perception in Medieval Philosophy
3 - Skepticism and Perception
4 - Perception in Early Modern Philosophy
5 - Perception in Philosophy and Psychology in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries
6 - Sense Data
7 - Phenomenological Approaches
8 - Perceptual Representation/Perceptual Content
9 - Perception and the First Person
10 - Nonconceptual Content
11 - Disjunctivism
12 - Action Based Accounts
13 - Perceptual Reports
14 - Vision
15 - Audition
16 - Touch
17 - The Chemical Senses
18 - The Bodily Senses
19 - Unconscious perception
20 - Object Perception
21 - Primary and Secondary Qualities
22 - Colour
23 - Perception and Space
24 - Perception and Time
25 - Speech Perception
26 - Musical Perception
27 - Own Body Perception
28 - Pain
29 - Perceiving Nothings
30 - Individuating the Senses
31 - Attention
32 - Multisensory Perception
33 - Perceptual Constancy
34 - Synesthesia
35 - Substituting the Senses
36 - Similarity Spaces
37 - Bayesian Perceptual Psychology
38 - Signal Detection Theory
39 - Information Theory
40 - Modularity of Perception
41 - The Epistemology of Perception
42 - Perceptual Learning
43 - Perception and Demonstratives
44 - Nonhuman Animal Senses
45 - Perception and Art

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.