Do spatial features appear the same whether they are perceived through vision or touch? This question is at stake in the puzzle that William Molyneux posed to John Locke, concerning whether a man born blind whose sight was restored would be able immediately to identify the shapes of the things he saw. A recent study purports to answer the question negatively, but I argue here that the subjects of the study likely could not see well enough for the result to have been meaningful. I then propose a way to improve the study, by including cues from object motion
If the sight of cortically blind people were restored, could they visually recognize a cube or a sph...
posed his now famous ques-tion to John Locke, a question about the contents of human sensory experie...
Geometry intuitions seem to be rooted in a non-verbal system that humans possess since early age. Ho...
Do spatial features appear the same whether they are perceived through vision or touch? This questio...
The paper contains analysis of Molyneux's question, one of the greatest problems of theory of percep...
This chapter explores how our understanding of Molyneux’s question, and of the possibility of an exp...
A recent empirical study claims to show that the answer to Molyneux’s question is negative, but, as ...
The aim of this chapter is to shed new light on the question of what newly sighted subjects are capa...
In the 1700s, William Molyneux asked John Locke to consider if a man who was blind at birth, without...
How do we recognize identities between seen shapes and felt ones? Is this due to associative learnin...
In 1688 Molyneux asked the question whether a blind man who knew the difference between a sphere and...
Molyneux asked whether a newly sighted person could distinguish a sphere from a cube by sight alone,...
Molyneux’s question asks whether someone born blind, who could distinguish cubes from spheres using ...
In 1688, the Irish scientist William Molyneux sent a letter to the philosopher John Locke in which h...
Ever since the early modern period the Molyneux Problem has been a topic of debate both in the philo...
If the sight of cortically blind people were restored, could they visually recognize a cube or a sph...
posed his now famous ques-tion to John Locke, a question about the contents of human sensory experie...
Geometry intuitions seem to be rooted in a non-verbal system that humans possess since early age. Ho...
Do spatial features appear the same whether they are perceived through vision or touch? This questio...
The paper contains analysis of Molyneux's question, one of the greatest problems of theory of percep...
This chapter explores how our understanding of Molyneux’s question, and of the possibility of an exp...
A recent empirical study claims to show that the answer to Molyneux’s question is negative, but, as ...
The aim of this chapter is to shed new light on the question of what newly sighted subjects are capa...
In the 1700s, William Molyneux asked John Locke to consider if a man who was blind at birth, without...
How do we recognize identities between seen shapes and felt ones? Is this due to associative learnin...
In 1688 Molyneux asked the question whether a blind man who knew the difference between a sphere and...
Molyneux asked whether a newly sighted person could distinguish a sphere from a cube by sight alone,...
Molyneux’s question asks whether someone born blind, who could distinguish cubes from spheres using ...
In 1688, the Irish scientist William Molyneux sent a letter to the philosopher John Locke in which h...
Ever since the early modern period the Molyneux Problem has been a topic of debate both in the philo...
If the sight of cortically blind people were restored, could they visually recognize a cube or a sph...
posed his now famous ques-tion to John Locke, a question about the contents of human sensory experie...
Geometry intuitions seem to be rooted in a non-verbal system that humans possess since early age. Ho...