Sensing the World |
Contents
Preface | 1 |
CHAPTER ONE Introduction | 11 |
CHAPTER TWO Feeling Ones Body | 25 |
CHAPTER THREE Smell | 57 |
What we discover about an odor in attentively smelling | 64 |
An odors sensible character | 73 |
Odorous qualities | 85 |
CHAPTER FOUR Feeling Heat and Cold | 97 |
CHAPTER SIX Vision | 205 |
Physical blue | 233 |
CHAPTER SEVEN The Sense of Touch | 241 |
CHAPTER EIGHT The Structure of Sensory | 283 |
Sensuous attribution of sensuous | 295 |
Corrigible | 305 |
Behavioral analysis of sensuous attribution appears | 318 |
Further comparisons of conceptual and sensuous | 324 |
How can we with thermometers | 109 |
Further specification of the key question about feeling | 122 |
CHAPTER FIVE Hearing | 163 |
trasted with measuring temperature | 190 |
them by touch | 199 |
Necessary | 330 |
The sensuous | 337 |
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Common terms and phrases
action argument auditory attention auditory impression become aurally conscious become conscious become visually conscious behavior body brittle causal powers cause concept conceptual attribution constitutes direct object direct realist directly aware directly conscious directly felt disposition to smell Dretske ears experience eyes fact feature feeling a toothache flesh forces acting gases hear hence identity indirect realism instantiated intensity of heat intensity of pressure look blue macroscopic manifestation mean kinetic energy mediated microreduction molecular forces molecules nature ness odor olfactory one's physical blue present protons representation role scious sense of touch sense organs sensible character sensory awareness sensory consciousness sensory receptors sensuous attribution sensuous content sensuous green sensuous quality skin sort soundwaves specified speckles square shape stress structure suppose surface surface's tactual awareness thermal awareness thermal feeling thermal perception thermal qualities thermodynamicists thermodynamics thermoperceptual thermosensory things tion tonal quality tooth vibration virtue visual awareness visual image visual perception