SEEING WITH THE HANDS - PATERSON MARK
SEEING WITH THE HANDS - PATERSON MARK A literary, historical and philosophical discussion of attitudes to blindness by the sighted, and what the blind `see'Why has there been a persistent fascination…
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SEEING WITH THE HANDS - PATERSON MARK
A literary, historical and philosophical discussion of attitudes to blindness by the sighted, and what the blind `see'Why has there been a persistent fascination by the sighted, including philosophers, poets and the public, in what the blind `see'? What happens on the rare occasions when surgery allows previously blind people to see for the very first time? Is the experience of being blind, as Descartes declared, like `seeing with the hands'?
These questions and others were promp And how did evidence from early experimental surgery inform those philosophical debates about vision and touch?