In Intersensory Origins of Mind, Thorne Shipley proposes a fundamental revision of the core of modern psychology. With a serious respect for the history of sicence, Shipley shows the profound limits of linear, mechanistic and niavely reductionists accounts of the mind, and proposes instead a sensory rationalist position which builds on the principles of emergent evolution.

Combining several diverse perspectives, from the physiological optics of Helmholtz, the perceptual science of Kohler, the visual electrophysiology of Hubel/ Wiesel to the theories of Dewey, Polanyi, Cassirer, Chomsky and Piaget, Intersensory Origins of Mind is an ambitious humanistic synthesis of sensory science. It will need to be read by anyone with a serious interst in philosophical psychology, the nature of human consciousness and the origin of mind.