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  • A Pluralist’s Guide to Solving Molyneux’s Problem

    by Brian Glenney ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
    This book presents a novel pluralist strategy for answering Molyneux’s 300+-year-old conundrum: Would a person, born blind but given sight, identify a shape previously known only by their touch? The author interweaves historical scholarship with contemporary philosophical work and empirical research on animal, infant, and adult human perception.The author argues that we need a new approach to ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Defining Sport

    Conceptions and Borderlines

    by Shawn E. Klein, Francisco Javier López Frías, Kevin Schieman, John McClelland, Keith Strudler, Pam R. Sailors, Sarah Teetzel, Charlene Weaving, Chrysostomos Giannoulakis, Lindsay Pursglove0, Brian Glenney1, Teresa González Aja2, Joan Grassbaugh Forry3, Brody J. Ruihley4, Coral Rae5, Joey Gawrysiak6, Andrew Billings7, Dr. Chad Carlson8, Heather L. Reid9 ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy of Sport
    Defining Sport: Conceptions and Borderlines is not about the variations of usage of the term “sport.” It is about the concept, the range of activities in the world that we unite into one idea—sport. It is through the project of defining sport that we can come to understand these activities better, how they are similar or different, and how they relate to other human endeavors.This definitional ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • The Senses and the History of Philosophy

    Edited by Brian Glenney, José Silva ...
    Series series Rewriting the History of Philosophy
    The study of perception and the role of the senses have recently risen to prominence in philosophy and are now a major area of study and research. However, the philosophical history of the senses remains a relatively neglected subject. Moving beyond the current philosophical canon, this outstanding collection offers a wide-ranging and diverse philosophical exploration of the senses, from the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Molyneux’s Question and the History of Philosophy

    Edited by Gabriele Ferretti, Brian Glenney ...
    Series series Rewriting the History of Philosophy
    In 1688 the Irish scientist and politician William Molyneux sent a letter to the philosopher John Locke. In it, he asked him a question: could someone who was born blind, and able to distinguish a globe and a cube by touch, be able to immediately distinguish and name these shapes by sight if given the ability to see?The philosophical puzzle offered in Molyneux’s letter fascinated not only Locke, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Skateboarding and the Senses

    Skills, Surfaces, and Spaces

    by Sander Hölsgens, Brian Glenney ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
    This book presents a new perspective on skateboarding, centred on the senses, skill acquisition, embodiment, and the concept of "city craft".Skateboarding and the Senses traces how skaters use their skilled bodies to bring vitality to contested spaces. Building on sensory anthropology, the book draws connections between the diverse ways skaters move and their boundless drive for social action – ... Read more

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