Schopenhauer’s account of sense perception contains an acute critique of Kant’s theory of cognition. His analysis of the role of the understanding in perception may be closer to Kant’s than he ...

We perceive the world through our five senses—our eyes, ears, skin, nose, and mouth are all receptors. Everything that comes into the brain enters through one of these doors. Because most of us take ...

Have you ever wondered why you feel cozy in some places while you feel stunned in others? Think about the last international airport you landed in, or a local coffee shop in your neighborhood. How we ...

If someone were to invent "smellovision", it seems we might all end up watching the same show slightly differently – researchers have discovered that our sense of smell can affect how we perceive ...

Humans have seven senses, including taste, sight, touch, smell, hearing, heat perception, and gravity sense, each evolving over millions of years from early organisms.

The pandemic did something strange to our sense of time. For Ruth Ogden, lockdown spent confined to her 3-bedroom duplex in Manchester, England, with a newborn and two boys home from school, "was like ...

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