Perceptual ephemera /

As well as having perceptual experience of material objects, we also experience such things as rainbows and surfaces, shadows and absences. A team of philosophers explore the unusual interest of our experience of ephemeral aspects of the world. This is the first collective philosophical study of per...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Crowther, Thomas (Editor), Mac Cumhaill, Clare (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Edition:First Edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • A tour of the ephemeral / Thomas Crowther and Clare Mac Cumhaill
  • Sound and illusion / Matthew Soteriou
  • The unitary nature of sounds / Matthew Nudds
  • Representation and ephemerality in olfaction / Cain Todd
  • Odours as olfactibilia / Louise Richardson
  • Spectacular absences: a companion guide / Roy Sorensen
  • Disappearances / Anna Farennikova
  • Shadows, objects, and the lexicon: on some lexicalized and non-lexicalized concepts of shadow and light / Roberto Casati
  • No more than meets the eye: shadows as pure visibilia / Ian Phillips
  • On silhouettes, surfaces, and Sorensen / Thomas Raleigh
  • Aristotle on transparency / Mark Eli Kalderon
  • Perceptual media, glass and mirrors / Vivian Mizrahi
  • In touch with the look of solidity / Thomas Crowther
  • Nonsense and visual evanescence / Clare Mac Cumhaill
  • Ephemeral vision / Mohan Matthen.