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In Defense of Jñānalakṣaṇā Pratyāsatti
In Nyāya philosophy, a special kind of extraordinary sensory connection is admitted named jñānalakṣaṇā pratyāsatti or jñānalakṣaṇa sannikarṣa . It is...
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Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture
This article analyses the evolutionist discourses on the senses that emerged in the late 19th century, when theories on the evolution of species were...
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Your red isn't my red! Connectionist Structuralism and the puzzle of abstract objects
This paper presents a nine step argument for “Connectionist Structuralism” (CS), a physical nominalist position that takes seriously the non-physical...
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Perceptual Similarity: Insights From Crossmodal Correspondences
Perceptual similarity is one of the most fiercely debated topics in the philosophy and psychology of perception. The documented history of the issue...
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Knowledge-how and the limits of defeat
How, if at all, is knowing how to do something defeasible? Some, the “intellectualists”, treat the defeasibility of knowledge-how as in some way...
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Crossmodal Correspondences in Art and Science: Odours, Poetry, and Music
Odour-sound correspondences provide some of the most fascinating and intriguing examples of crossmodal associations, in part, because it is unclear...
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‘Surabhi Candanam’: the First Acquaintance of Fragrant Sandal: a Problem
Sometimes seeing sandal from non-smellable distance we obtain cognition in the form ‘ surabhi candanam ’ (that sandal out there is fragrant). According...
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Synaesthesia and Other Figures. What the Senses Tell Us About Figurative Language
The “figure of the senses” par excellence is synaesthesia, that is, a type of metaphor in which the connection of linguistic expressions referring to...
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The State of Play
In this closing section (Chaps. 13 and 14 ) I...
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Symptomologies of Post-Anthropocene
This chapter looks at the symptoms of the post-Anthropocene with the speculation that the capitalist system has brought on the onset of a range of...
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Flowers of Dim-Sightedness: Dōgen’s Mystical ‘Negative Ocularcentrism’
So numerous are the aspects of Dōgen’s writings that reflect the structures of vision that we might consider his philosophy “ocularcentric”. While...
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Writer Meets Painter
Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger met in Provence in 1975. This meeting was the start of over twenty years of close friendship and intellectual...
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Towards a Pluralistic Account of Thought Experiments
In light of our knowledge about neurodiversity, I argue that the cognitive science framework Miščević uses in Thought Experiments must be broaden to...
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The Reflected Face as a Mask of the Self: An Appraisal of the Psychological and Neuroscientific Research About Self-face Recognition
This study reviews research about the recognition of one’s own face and discusses scientific techniques (especially the instrument of the mirror) to...
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The Cognitive Science of the Ranking Game
We like to see who is stronger, richer, better, more clever. Since we humans (1) love lists; (2), are competitive, and (3) are jealous of other...
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Phenomenological Methods and some Retooling
What methods are used by phenomenologists? This chapter explains the ‘natural attitude’ and reviews the classic methodological steps involved in...
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Murdoch and Visual Art
The years preceding Iris Murdoch’s first meeting with Harry Weinberger in 1975 prepared the ground for their fruitful friendship. Murdoch’s enduring...
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Grief’s impact on sensorimotor expectations: an account of non-veridical bereavement experiences
The philosophy of grief has directed little attention to bereavement’s impact on perceptual experience. However, misperceptions, hallucinations and...
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Können wir glauben, was wir sehen?
Menschliche Wahrnehmung ist keine bloße Abbildung der Realität. Sie ist ein Konstrukt des Gehirns, eine Fantasie, die sich weitgehend mit der...