Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes

by Mark Paterson

Why has there been a persistent fascination by the sighted, including philosophers, poets and the public, in what the blind 'see'? Is the experience of being blind, as Descartes declared, like 'seeing with the hands'? What happens on the rare occasions when surgery allows previously blind people to see for the very first time? And how did evidence from early experimental surgery inform those philosophical debates about vision and touch? These questions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474405312
• ISBN13: 9781474405317
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"