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Molyneux’s Question and the History of Philosophy book cover

1st Edition

Molyneux’s Question and the History of Philosophy

Edited By Gabriele Ferretti, Brian Glenney Copyright 2021
370 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

370 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

370 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In 1688 the Irish scientist and politician William Molyneux sent a letter to the philosopher John Locke. In it, he asked him a question: could someone who was born blind, and able to distinguish a globe and a cube by touch, be able to immediately distinguish and name these shapes by sight if given the ability to see? The philosophical puzzle offered in Molyneux’s letter fascinated not only... Read more

Part I: Historical Advances in Molyneux’s Question

Introduction to Part I

1. Epicureanism and Molyneux's Question

Giulia Scalas

2. Molyneux, Mysticism, Empiricism, and Independent Thinking

Lenn E. Goodman

3. A Spinozistic Answer to Molyneux's Question

Daniel Schneider

4. Amo on Molyneux's Question

Chris Meyns

5. Margaret Cavendish and Molyneux’s Question: Patterning, Perception, and Touch

Marcus P. Adams

6. Dmaris Masham and Molyneux’s Question: What Response would Masham have given?

Anna Vaughn

7. Molyneux’s Question: The Irish Debates

Manuel Fasko and Peter West

8. Molyneux’s Question at the Erasmiaans Gymnasium, Rotterdam

Marjolein Degenaar

9. Molyneux's Vision

Nicholas J. Wade

Part II: Ethical Advances in Molyneux’s Question

Introduction to Part II

10. The Cult of the Born Completely Blind Man, Revisited

Simon Hayhoe

11. The Molyneux Cult

Georgina Kleege

Part III: Empirical Advances in Molyneux’s Question

Introduction to Part III

12. Molyneux's Question and the Semantics of Seeing

Berit Brogaard, Bartek Chomanski and Dimitria Electra Gatzia

13. Molyneux's Question and Neuroscience of Vision

Valeria Occelli

14. No Yes Answers to Molyneux

Shaun Gallagher

Part IV: Philosophical Advances in Molyneux’s Question

Introduction to Part IV

15. Molyneux’s question and interpersonal variations in multimodal mental imagery among blind subjects

Bence Nanay

16. Molyneux’s Question and Perceptual Judgments

Josefa Toribio

17. Action at First Sight

Gabriele Ferretti

18. Molyneux’s Question and Somatosensory Spaces

Tony Cheng

19. Molyneux’s Question on LSD

Brian Glenney

20. What Was Molyneux’s Question a Question About?

Jonathan Cohen and Mohan Matthen

Biography

Gabriele Ferretti is a NOMIS Fellow at the Eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Brian Glenney is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Program at Norwich University, USA. He is co-editor of The Senses and the History of Philosophy (Routledge, 2019).

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