Sensitive subjects: Sensory experiments: psychophysics, race, and the aesthetics of feeling, by Erica Fretwell, Durham, Duke University Press, 2020, 336 pp., $27.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4780-1093-7.
However, as Fretwell points out, the fact that scientists had gone looking for the objective underpinnings of subjective sensation did not mean that psychophysics had vanquished mind, "spirit", or "soul." Indeed, one must quibble with I Sensory Experiments's i frequent description of psychophysics a...
| Publicado en: | Senses & Society Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 362 - 366 |
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