Sensory Substitution and Augmentation

ISBN-13: 9780197266441 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 300 str.

Fiona MacPherson

Recenzje

The late Paul Bach-y-Rita is generally accredited for developing the ?rst electronic sensory substitution device (SSD) in the 1960s. This was the tactile visual sensory substitution device (TVSS) that redirected visual information to the tactile sense. The editor of this book provides a lively and elaborate history of the TVSS and other SSDs and augmentation devices in the Introduction. MacPherson continues with a detailed philosophical account on the nature of the sensory experiences elicited by SSDs. Already in the Introduction, it becomes clear that the book successfully brings together perspectives on SSDs from psychological, neuroscienti?c, and philosophical vantage points.

O autorze

Fiona Macpherson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where she is also director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and trustee of the Kennedy Memorial trust. Her work concerns the nature of consciousness, perception and perceptual experience, introspection, imagination, and the metaphysics of mind. She has written on the nature of the senses, on cognitive penetration, and on illusion and hallucination. Her publications include Handbook of Philosophy of Colour (with Derek Brown; 2018), Phenomenal Presence and Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory (both with Fabian Dorsch; 2018), Hallucination (with Dimitris Platchais; 2013), The Senses (2011), The Admissible Contents of Experience (with Katherine Hawley; 2011), and Disjunctivism (with Adrian Haddock; 2008).