Sensory modalities and novel features of perceptual experiences

Wadle, Douglas C.

doi:10.1007/s11229-020-02689-x

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“…Generally, it is assumed in the multisensory features literature that auditory localization (including ventriloquism 13 effect location phenomenology) is properly associated with audition, but no argument is offered for the intuition. Nor is it clear that this intuition can be reconciled with other feature association intuitions relied on in this literature (Wadle [2020]). But then it remains an open possibility that supposedly auditory localization phenomenology is a novel feature.…”

Section: A New Motivation For Restricted Auditory Aspatialismmentioning

confidence: 69%

“…See (Spence and Bayne [2014]) for a critical look at the evidence for multisensory experiences. See (Mandrigin [2021]; Wadle [2020]) for critical discussion of the arguments in favour of multisensory features. articulation of the view.…”

Section: Strawson's Restricted Auditory Aspatialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…50 Briscoe ([2019]) adopts O'Callaghan's approach. See (Wadle [2020]) for a critique of this way of associating 51 features with senses.…”

Section: Binaural and Monaural Cue Coordinationmentioning

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Restricted Auditory Aspatialism

Wadle¹

2021

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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Some philosophers have argued that we do not hear sounds as located in the environment.Others have objected that this straightforwardly contradicts the phenomenology of auditory experience. And from this they draw metaphysical conclusions about the nature of soundsthat they are events or properties of vibrating surfaces rather than waves or sensations. I argue that there is a minimal, but recognizable, notion of audition to which this phenomenal objection does not apply. While this notion doesn't correspond to our ordinary notion of auditory experience, it does-in conjunction with our lack of an uncontroversial individuation of the senses and recent interest in distinctively multisensory features of perceptual experiences-raise the possibility of more expansive notions of audition, including some that do plausibly count as corresponding to our everyday notion of audition, that lack the spatial phenomenology cited in the objection. Until this possibility is ruled out, the phenomenal objection and metaphysical conclusions drawn from it remain inconclusive. argued that we do not enjoy spatial audition-that is, we do not hear sounds as located in the environment, even in the bare sense of merely off in a given direction or at some particular distance

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Section: Strawson's Restricted Auditory Aspatialismmentioning

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Restricted Auditory Aspatialism

Wadle¹

2021

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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Perceptual Content

Lycan

2024

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The book has three main topics or concerns. (1) The diversity of the senses. Though all perception represents, the similarity between sense modalities ends there. The senses’ respective representational modes, styles, and structures differ very strongly from each other. (2) The Layering thesis. A single sensory representation usually has more than one content; the perceptual state represents one object or property by representing a more primitive or less ambitious one. Though this “layering” is ubiquitous, its structure and range differs dramatically as between sense modalities, and in some modalities it works unexpectedly: for example, nearly all tactual representation derives from representation of conditions of or in the subject’s own skin, meaning that touch represents, e.g., the texture of a physical object by, and only by, representing stress within the skin; also the tactual layering is remarkably fine-grained and rich. (3) Aspect perception. Besides the intrinsic interest of “perceiving as”—even popular appeal, what with joke ambiguous figures such as the duck-rabbit and the old/young woman—it remains especially mysterious. Nearly all work on it has concerned vision only. But it is crucial for understanding auditory representation, which is one thing that distinguishes hearing from the other senses. Further, the auditory case greatly reinforces the idea that perceiving-as depends on expectations, it severely damages what we had thought was the best further approach to understanding aspect perception, in terms of attention.

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Preface and Acknowledgments

Lycan

2024

Perceptual Content

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Sensory modalities and novel features of perceptual experiences

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