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