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Making sense of multiple senses

Kevin Connolly

pp. 351-364

Abstract

In the case of ventriloquism, seeing the movement of the ventriloquist dummy's mouth changes your experience of the auditory location of the vocals. Some have argued that cases like ventriloquism provide evidence for the view that at least some of the content of perception is fundamentally multimodal. In the ventriloquism case, this would mean your experience has constitutively audio-visual content (not just a conjunction of an audio content and visual content). In this paper, I argue that cases like ventriloquism do not in fact warrant that conclusion. I then try to make sense of crossmodal cases without appealing to fundamentally multimodal content.

Publication details

Published in:

Brown Richard S. (2014) Consciousness inside and out: phenomenology, neuroscience, and the nature of experience. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 351-364

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6001-1_24

Full citation:

Connolly Kevin (2014) „Making sense of multiple senses“, In: R. S. Brown (ed.), Consciousness inside and out, Dordrecht, Springer, 351–364.