"Ann Scholl revises the traditional understanding of the role of imagination and sensory perception in Descartes's Meditations. Traditionally, Cartesian scholars have focused primarily on sensory perception as the more significant of the two "special" modes of thought. In this w…
Introduction -- Posing sex: prospects for a perceptual ethics -- Learning from imagination: re-imagining moral knowledge -- The senses of personhood: beyond allegories of the body -- The impositions of perception -- Knowledge in the flesh
Introduction -- Posing sex: prospects for a perceptual ethics -- Learning from imagination: re-imagining moral knowledge -- The senses of personhood: beyond allegories of the body -- The impositions of perception -- Knowledge in the flesh.
Posing Sex: Toward a Perceptual Ethics for Literary and Visual Art' views the long and provocative tradition of representing the sexual act in Western art as an occasion for challenging assumptions about personhood. 0It is uncontroversial that what Singer dubs the "sex image," t…
Posing Sex: Toward a Perceptual Ethics for Literary and Visual Art' views the long and provocative tradition of representing the sexual act in Western art as an occasion for challenging assumptions about personhood. 0It is uncontroversial that what Singer dubs the "sex image," t…
Plato has often been read as denigrating the cognitive and ethical value of poetry. In his dialogues, the faculty that corresponds to the poetic--the imagination--is located at the lowest level of human intelligence, and so, it is furthest from true understanding. Simultaneously…