Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes (First) (Edinburgh University Press)
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- Synopsis
- Drawing upon the writings of Descartes, Voltaire, Locke and others, the author reflects upon the philosophical understanding of blindness and what it suggests about the nature of perception. Central to the discussion is the Molyneux Question first posed in 1688: "Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same metal, ... and the blind man be made to see: whether by his sight before he touched them, could he now tell which is the globe and which the cube?" Patterson discusses cases of people blind from early in life who have had vision restored through surgery, and explores the similarities and differences between visual and tactile perception. The final chapter examines the autobiographical writings of blind authors including Helen Keller, John Hull, and Georgina Kleege, and how such works are understood by sighted readers.
- Copyright:
- 2016
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 229 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781474405317
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 08/06/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Mark Paterson
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Disability-Related, Psychology, Medicine, Philosophy
- Submitted By:
- Deborah Kent Stein
- Proofread By:
- Frenchie
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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