1. What is Perception?
1.1. Window to the world
1.2 The processing of sensory input
1.3 Perceptual representation
1.4 Perceptual attention
1.5 The function of perception
2. The Variety of Senses
2.1 Vision
2.2 Audition
2.3 Touch
2.4 The chemical senses
2.5 Multimodal perception
3. Perception and Cognition
3.1. The perception/cognition divide
3.2 Top-down influences on perception
3.3 Perceptual expectations
3.4 Cross-cultural differences
3.5 Perceptual justification
4. Perception and Action
4.1. How perception leads to action
4.2 Action-guiding perception
4.3. Perceptually guided actions
4.4. Perception is not all-purpose
4.5 Egocentric perception
5. Perception without Input
5.1 Offline perception
5.2 Mental imagery
5.3 Illusions and hallucination
5.4 Dreaming
5.5 Multimodal mental imagery
6. Aesthetic Perception
6.1 Aesthetic experience
6.2 Aesthetic attention
6.3 Cross-cultural aesthetic differences
6.4 Aesthetic imagery
6.5 The freedom of perception
Biography
Bence Nanay is Professor of Philosophical Psychology and BOF research professor at the University of Antwerp . He published four monographs with Oxford UP (Between Perception and Action, 2013; Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception, 2016; Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction, 2019; and Mental Imagery: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, 2023) with three more under contract. He is the director of the European Network for Sensory Research.
