Molyneux's Question: A Window on Crossmodal Interplay in Blindness

In 1688, the Irish scientist William Molyneux sent a letter to the philosopher John Locke in which he asked whether a man who had been born blind and whose experience of the world was based on senses other than vision, would be able to distinguish and name a globe and a cube by sight alone, once he...

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Main Author: Valeria Occelli
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2014-04-01
Series:Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia
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Online Access:http://www.rifp.it/ojs/index.php/rifp/article/view/rifp.2014.0006