Most existing research in the epistemology of perception has focused on visual perception. This is unsurprising, given that the majority of our knowledge of the world is attributed to our visual experiences. Consequently, this book is the first of its kind to focus on the epistemology of non-visual perception, which includes hearing, touch, taste, and intermodal experiences. Based on recent empirical studies of emotion, perception, and decision-making, this book opens new avenues for discussing whether perceptual experience can produce justified beliefs and what characteristics those beliefs possess.

The book explores questions not only related to traditional perception but also to self-perception, interoception, multisensory perception, and more. This expands the scope of traditional concepts regarding the influence of non-visual conscious experience on human behavior and rationality. The contributors to this book, who are leading researchers in their fields, discuss the role played by emotions in decision-making and active perception, and what this implies for the justification of belief and knowledge. They analyze the idea that certain sensory experiences, such as touch, possess an epistemic privilege over others, in addition to the relationship of perception to introspection and the relationship between action, perception, and belief. Other chapters address topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, revealing the role that artworks can play in providing us with perceptual knowledge of emotions.