Abstract
Response: Commentary: Multimodal theories of recognition and their relation to Molyneux's question.
Highlights
When William Molyneux posed his famous thought experiment to the philosopher, John Locke, it was framed to address the transfer of sensory information between touch and vision
Molyneux’s Question (MQ), appearing in Altieri (2015) and Schwenkler (2015), was stated by Locke: “Suppose a man born blind, and adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a Cube, and a Sphere..., so as to tell, when he felt one and t’other, which is the Cube, which the Sphere
I argue in this paper that MQ has far broader ramifications than a thought experiment inquiring whether visual-to-tactile representations are acquired through sensory experience
Summary
Molyneux’s Question (MQ), appearing in Altieri (2015) and Schwenkler (2015), was stated by Locke: “Suppose a man born blind, and adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a Cube, and a Sphere..., so as to tell, when he felt one and t’other, which is the Cube, which the Sphere. Such a variety of nativism requires sensory information—auditory and tactile in the specific case of MQ—to subsist in a common amodal code.
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