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SUMMARY:Many Molyneux Questions - Jonathan Cohen (University of California
 \, San Diego)
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CONTACT:Matt Farr
DESCRIPTION:(Joint work with Mohan Matthen)\n\nMolyneux's Question (MQ) co
 ncerns whether a newly sighted man would recognize/distinguish a sphere an
 d a cube by vision\, assuming he could previously do this by touch.	\n\nWe
  argue that (MQ) splits into questions about (a) shared representations of
  space in different perceptual systems\, and about (b) shared ways of cons
 tructing higher dimensional spatiotemporal features from information about
  lower dimensional ones\, most of the technical difficulty centring on (b)
 . So understood\, MQ resists any monolithic answer: everything depends on 
 the constraints faced by particular perceptual systems in extracting featu
 res of higher dimensionality from those of lower. Each individual question
  of this type is empirical and must be investigated separately.\n\nWe pres
 ent several variations on MQ based on different levels of dimensional inte
 gration — some of these are familiar\, some novel adaptations of problem
 s known elsewhere\, and some completely novel. Organizing these cases in t
 his way is useful because it unifies a set of disparate questions about in
 termodal transfer that have held philosophical and psychological interest\
 , suggests a new range of questions of the same type\, sheds light on simi
 larities and differences between members of the family\, and allows us to 
 formulate a much-augmented set of principles and questions concerning the 
 intermodal transfer of spatiotemporal organization.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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