Overview

Most research on perception has focused on the perceptual experience of three-dimensional, solid, bounded, and coherent material objects - items like tables and tomatoes. But as well as having perceptual experience of such objects, we also experience such aspects of the world as, for instance, rainbows and surfaces, shadows and absences: things that are ephemeral by contrast with material objects. This book presents fifteen new essays on the perceptual experience of such ephemera. The editors' introduction provides a detailed guide to the topic as a whole, setting out the thematic background to this emerging area of research in contemporary philosophy of perception. The volume winds a path through the ephemeral, considering such topics as sounds, smells, transparency, reflection, camouflage, solidity, and ambient vision. A general aim of the volume is to make a case that the broad range of ephemera it catalogues is far from marginal, or insubstantial with respect to their philosophical interest and value. Philosophical attention to perceptul ephemera may well suggest novel routes to arriving at a more developed understanding of perceptual experience at large and its characteristic features.

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Author:   Thomas Crowther (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick) ,  Clare Mac Cumhaill (Lecturer in Philosophy, Lecturer in Philosophy, Durham University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.664kg
ISBN:  

9780198722304

ISBN 10:   0198722303
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   26 June 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Thomas Crowther and Clare Mac Cumhaill: A Tour of the Ephemeral 2: Matthew Soteriou: Sounds and Illusion 3: Matthew Nudds: The Unitary Nature of Sounds 4: Cain Todd: Representation and Ephemerality in Olfaction 5: Louise Richardson: Odours as Olfactibilia 6: Roy Sorensen: Spectacular Absences: A Companion Guide 7: Anna Farennikova: Disappearances 8: Roberto Casati: Shadows, Objects and the Lexicon 9: Ian Phillips: No More than Meets the Eye: Shadows as Pure Visibilia 10: Thomas Raleigh: On Silhouettes, Surfaces and Sorensen 11: Mark Eli Kalderon: Aristotle on Transparency 12: Vivian Mizrahi: Perceptual Media, Glass and Mirrors 13: Thomas Crowther: In Touch with the Look of Solidity 14: Clare Mac Cumhaill: Nonsense and Visual Evanescence 15: Mohan Matthen: Ephemeral Vision

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Thomas Crowther is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His research interests are in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. His work mainly focuses on temporal ontology and the temporal aspects of experience. Clare Mac Cumhaill is Lecturer in Philosophy at Durham University. Her research interests are in perception, action, emotion and aesthetics, with a special focus on space, spatial properties, and structural explanation more generally.

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