Table of Contents

Part I: Historical Advances in Molyneux’s Question Introduction to Part I 1. Epicureanism and Molyneux's 2. Molyneux, Mysticism, Empiricism, and Independent Thinking 3. A Spinozistic Answer to Molyneux's Question 4. Amo on Molyneux's Question 5. Margaret Cavendish and Molyneux’s Question: Patterning, Perception, and Touch 6. Damaris Masham and Molyneux’s Question: What Response would Masham have given? 7. Molyneux’s Question: The Irish Debates 8. Molyneux’s Question at the Erasmiaans Gymnasium, Rotterdam 9. Molyneux's Vision Part II: Ethical Advances in Molyneux’s Question Introduction to Part II 10. The Cult of the Born Completely Blind Man, Revisited 11. The Molyneux Cult Part III: Empirical Advances in Molyneux’s Question Introduction to Part III 12. Molyneux's Question and the Semantics of Seeing 13. Molyneux's Question and Neuroscience of Vision 14. No Yes Answers to Molyneux Part IV: Philosophical Advances in Molyneux’s Question Introduction to Part IV 15. Molyneux’s Question and Interpersonal Variations in Multimodal Mental Imagery among Blind Subjects 16. Molyneux’s Question and Perceptual Judgments 17. Action at First Sight 18. Molyneux’s Question and Somatosensory Spaces 19. Molyneux on LSD 20. What Was Molyneux’s Question a Question About?

About the Author

Gabriele Ferretti is a NOMIS Fellow at the Eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Brian Glenney is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Program at Norwich University, USA. He is co-editor of The Senses and the History of Philosophy (Routledge, 2019).