A Pluralist's Guide to Solving Molyneux's Problem

This book presents a novel pluralist strategy for answering Molyneux’s 300+-year-old conundrum: Would a person, born blind but given sight, identify a shape previously known only by their touch? The author interweaves historical scholarship with contemporary philosophical work and empirical research on animal, infant, and adult human perception.

The author argues that we need a new approach to Molyneux’s problem because we do not know what the problem is really about, and it is untestable be...