BIBLIOS

Document type
Book chapters


Title
Landscapes of synesthesia: views from art, science and philosophy

Participants in the publication
G Corrêa (Author)
Dep. História e Filosofia das Ciências
CFCUL

Summary
Etymologically derived from a combination of the Greek syn, for together, and aisthêsis, for perception through the senses, the term synesthesia (also spelled synaesthesia) denotes a process of inter-sense analogy, whereby one sense modality experiences what usually belongs to one or more of the other senses. This paper explores the distinct approaches that Art, Science, and Philosophy have assumed towards the concept, and discusses how an awareness\\nof synesthetic bodily-mental-sensory processes opens up new perspectives of research that may interrelate the arts with cognitive neuroscience, as well as transform other fields of contemporary knowledge.

Editor(s)
Isabel Ponce de Leão, Maria do Carmo Mendes, Sérgio Lira


Institution
CFCUL-Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

Where published
Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development

Publication Identifiers

Address
Porto, Portugal

Organizers
Isabel Ponce de Leão, Maria do Carmo Mendes, Sérgio Lira

Publisher
Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development



Keywords
synesthesia in art synesthesia in science synesthesia in philosophy sensory theory Symbolist theory

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