Molyneux's Problem in Action

Gabriele Ferretti is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergamo, Italy. Previously, he was Humboldt Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy II, Center for Mind and Cognition, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany and NOMIS Fellow at Eikones, Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel, Switzerland. His research is mainly focused on philosophy of cognitive science, of mind and of perception. His work investigates the nature of the relation between visual perception and motor action, with a careful look at the experimental evidence available from neuroscience. His results are published in many journals in philosophy and cognitive neuroscience. He is also the author of monographs on philosophy of mind and neuroscience. He has co-edited, with Brian Glenney, a special issue on Molyneux’s question for Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, a volume with Routledge on Molyneux's question, and co-worked on the entry on Molyneux’s question for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Brian Glenney is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Norwich University. He has won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health. He works on sensory perception and is the co-editor of two volumes with Routledge: Molyneux’s Question and the History of Philosophy and The Senses and the History of Philosophy. He has several peer-review articles on the history and contemporary study of the philosophy of perception. He has recently co-edited a special issue, with Gabriele Ferretti, on Molyneux’s question for Philosophy and the Mind Sciences and co-worked with himon the entry on Molyneux’s problem for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Chapter 1 The Problem.- Chapter 2 A Multi-Layered Problem.- Chapter 3 Molyneux in Action Problems.- Chapter 4 A Pluralist Answer.- Chapter 5 Non-Visual Action-Based Analogues of Molyneux’s problem.- Chapter 6 Open ‘Active’ Aspects and Perspectives.- Chapter 7 Conclusion.