Does Philosophy Help Us "See?"

Professor Yake brought up what I found to be an interesting point in Wednesday's class: the idea that philosophy should help us "see," in a literal sense.

My initial reaction to this was, "anyone with two functioning eyes can 'see' just fine, thank you. Philosophy helps us interpret what we see, and find the meaning in and behind the visual stimuli. It helps us 'see' in the sense of understanding, as well it should."

But then I started thinking about this. Could training in perception be helpful? It is certainly a possibility. It may be quite useful to learn new ways of physically seeing things, in order to give us a new perspective from which to analyze and interpret that object. Is philosophy the subject that should concern itself with this? Perhaps. Though the question would then become, "how might we learn to 'see' differently?"

So, I beg the question: how might philosophy be able to teach us to "see?" Can it? Should it?