I have a new paper out in #Ergo on the #AuditoryField, which examines the spatial boundaries of #auditoryExperience, hearing silences, and how we experience space in audition as compared to vision. #philosophy #perception #hearing #TheSenses https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.2909

Looking forward to talking to the UK Semiochemical Network meeting tomorrow about ‘Individuating the Sense(s) of Smell’. For further details, you can read the published version at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02976-7. #philosophy #perception #olfaction #smell #TheSenses #UKSN

Allure of #chocolate explained by the sensation of the emulsion it forms on the tongue, rather than fat or cocoa content. #taste #touch #theSenses #multisensoryExperience https://apple.news/AYSIDg2FnQPaafpGAqkt52g

Very happy to have contributed a chapter to this fine collection on the #philosophyOfSmell. In it, I focus on the implications of the #temporalStructure of #olfactoryExperience for the #metaphysics and #philosophy of #olfaction, and #perceptualExperience more generally.

In particular, I argue that some (though not all) objects of olfactory experience are temporally extended. This includes both objective properties of the external environment, e.g. concentration gradients, and interactions between odorants and our sensory apparatus at the receptor level.

This makes olfactory experience observer- or perspective-dependent without rendering it subjective or mind-dependent in any philosophically substantive sense. It also opens up the possibility of an event-based metaphysics of olfactory experience.

Along with the rest of the volume, the chapter can be accessed online here: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003207801. Many thanks to the editors,
Benjamin D. Young and Andreas Keller, and other contributors for useful comments and feedback. I look forward to reading the other chapters!

#newPublication #philosophyOfPerception #temporalExperience #theSenses #noxp

I’m giving a talk tomorrow at the Institute of #Philosophy’s lab meeting on ‘The Problem of Temporal Grain: Experiencing Time Across the Senses’.

Tbh I will be as interested to find out what I’ve got to say as anyone else. Something about… #time? 🤔 #perception #TemporalExperience #TheSenses

I’m giving a talk tomorrow at the Institute of #Philosophy’s lab meeting on ‘The Problem of Temporal Grain: Experiencing Time Across the Senses’.

Tbh I will be as interested to find out what I’ve got to say as anyone else. Something about… #time? 😉 #perception #TemporalExperience #TheSenses

#Multisensory experience in #TheHobbit:

“Bilbo crept away from the wall more quietly than a mouse; but Gollum stiffened at once, and sniffed, and his eyes went green. He hissed softly but menacingly. He could not see the hobbit, but now he was on the alert, and he had other senses that the darkness had sharpened: hearing and smell.”

#Tolkien #perception #theSenses