The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception is a survey by leading philosophical thinkers of contemporary issues and new thinking in philosophy of perception. It includes sections on the history of the subject, introductions to contemporary issues in the epistemology, ontology and aesthetics of perception, treatments of the individual sense modalities and of the things we perceive by means of them, and a consideration of how perceptual information is integrated and consolidated. New analytic tools and applications to other areas of philosophy are discussed in depth. Each of the forty-five entries is written by a leading expert, some collaborating with younger figures; each seeks to introduce the reader to a broad range of issues. All contain new ideas on the topics covered; together they demonstrate the vigour and innovative zeal of a young field. The book is accessible to anybody who has an intellectual interest in issues concerning perception.About the Author: Mohan Matthen, University of Toronto Mohan Matthen studied Physics as an undergraduate at St. Stephen's College in Delhi, and took a PhD from Stanford University. He is currently Canada Research Chair in the Philosophy of Perception at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His current research is in philosophy of biology and philosophy of perception. He is working on a book that reconceptualises perception as an action, and on other topics around perception, including aesthetic pleasure and the proper way to understand secondary qualities.Table of Contents: Mohan Matthen: Introduction I. Historical Background 1: Victor Caston: Perception in Ancient Greek Philosophy 2: Dominik Perler: Perception in Medieval Philosophy 3: Baron Reed: Skepticism and Perception 4: Alison Simmons: Perception in Early Modern Philosophy 5: Gary Hatfield: Perception in Philosophy and Psychology in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries 6: Paul Snowdon: Sense Data 7: Charles Siewert: Phenomenological Approaches II. Contemporary Philosophical Approaches 8: Bence Nanay: Perceptual Representation/Perceptual Content 9: Christopher Peacocke: Perception and the First Person 10: Wayne Wright: Nonconceptual Content 11: Heather Logue: Disjunctivism 12: Pierre Jacob: Action Based Accounts 13: Berit Brogaard: Perceptual Reports III. The Senses 14: David Hilbert: Vision 15: Matt Nudds: Audition 16: Frédérique de Vignemont and Olivier Massin: Touch 17: Barry Smith: The Chemical Senses 18: J. Brendan Ritchie and Peter Carruthers: The Bodily Senses 19: Jesse Prinz: Unconscious perception IV. What We Perceive 20: Roberto Casati: Object Perception 21: Peter Ross: Primary and Secondary Qualities 22: Kathleen Akins and Martin Hahn: Colour 23: Jérôme Dokic: Perception and Space 24: Robin le Poidevin: Perception and Time 25: Casey O'Callaghan: Speech Perception 26: Charles Nussbaum: Musical Perception 27: Alisa Mandrigin and Evan Thompson: Own Body Perception 28: Valerie Gray Hardcastle: Pain 29: Roy Sorensen: Perceiving Nothings V. Integrating Sensory Information 30: Mohan Matthen: Individuating the Senses 31: John Campbell: Attention 32: Tim Bayne and Charles Spence: Multisensory Perception 33: Jonathan Cohen: Perceptual Constancy 34: Malika Auvray and Ophelia Deroy: Synesthesia 35: Julian Kiverstein, Mirko Farina, and Andy Clark: Substituting the Senses VI. Frameworks for Perception 36: Diana Raffman: Similarity Spaces 37: Michael Rescorla: Bayesian Perceptual Psychology 38: E. Samuel Winer and Michael Snodgrass: Signal Detection Theory 39: John Kulvicki: Information Theory 40: Ophelia Deroy: Modularity of Perception VII. Broader Philosophical Issues 41: Susanna Siegel and Nicholas Silins: The Epistemology of Perception 42: Rob Goldstone and Lisa Byrge: Perceptual Learning 43: Imogen Dickie: Perception and Demonstratives 44: Brian Keeley: Nonhuman Animal Senses 45: Dominic Lopes: Perception and Art