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  • Chapter 2 - Anatomizing Taste

  • Elizabeth L. Swann, Durham University
  • Book:
    Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England
    Published online:
    08 October 2020
    Print publication:
    15 October 2020, pp 71-100

  • Summary

    This chapter turns to medical writing in order to probe the relationship between literary taste and taste as an object and faculty of empirical investigation. In anatomical textbooks – notably Crooke’s Mikrokosmographia – ‘taste’ slides referentially between gustation and readerly discrimination. Against a conventional scholarly supposition that anatomical history follows a trajectory away from classical authorities towards the empirical certainties of sense experience, I contend that this semantic flexibility emblematises an early modern insistence on the productive complementarity of proto-scientific empiricism and philological erudition, bodily sensation and mental judgement. The complementarity also has implications for our understanding of early modern subjectivities, pointing to a notion of selfhood that is simultaneously sensorially and textually inscribed, grounded both in physical experience and in the acquisition of knowledge.

  • Ways of coloring: Comparative color vision as a case study for cognitive science

  • Evan Thompson, Adrian Palacios, Francisco J. Varela
  • Journal:
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 15 / Issue 1 / March 1992
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 May 2011, pp. 1-26

  • Different explanations of color vision favor different philosophical positions: Computational vision is more compatible with objectivism (the color is in the object), psychophysics and neurophysiology with subjectivism (the color is in the head). Comparative research suggests that an explanation of color must be both experientialist (unlike objectivism) and ecological (unlike subjectivism). Computational vision's emphasis on optimally “recovering” prespecified features of the environment (i.e., distal properties, independent of the sensory-motor capacities of the animal) is unsatisfactory. Conceiving of visual perception instead as the visual guidance of activity in an environment that is determined largely by that very activity suggests new directions for research.