Sounds

Name: Sounds
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ISBN: 9780199215928

ISBN-10: 0199215928

ISBN-13: 9780199215928

Edition: 2007

Authors: Casey O'Callaghan

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Vision dominates philosophical thinking about perception, and theorizing about experience in cognitive science has traditionally focused on a visual model. In a radical departure from established practice, Casey O'Callaghan provides a systematic treatment of sound and sound experience, and shows how thinking about audition and appreciating the relationships between multiple sense modalities can enrich our understanding of perception and the mind. Sounds proposes a novel theory of sounds and auditory perception. Against the widely accepted philosophical view that sounds are among the secondary or sensible qualities, O'Callaghan argues that, on any perceptually plausible account, sounds are…

Book details

List price: $125.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/20/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.67" wide x 8.74" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Figures



Sonic Realism



The Tyranny of the Visual



Sounds and Visuocentrism



Toward Sonic Realism



What Is a Sound?



What Kind of Thing Is a Sound?



Sounds as Properties



Sounds as Waves



The Locations of Sounds



Where Are Sounds?



Locational Hearing



Located Sounds



'Coming from'



Sounds without Locations?



Locatedness and the Metaphysics of Sounds



The Durations of Sounds



The Argument from Vacuums



Sounds in Vacuums?



The Argument from Vacuums



The Medium as a Necessary Condition



Involving the Medium



Sounds as Events



Sounds Are Events



Disturbings



Individuating Sounds



Two Objections



Sounds, Waves, and Experience



Audible Qualities



Periodicity and Pitch



Pitch and the Event Theory of Sounds



Loudness



Timbre



Sound-Related Phenomena



Explaining Sound-Related Phenomena



Transmission



Destructive and Constructive Interference



The Doppler Effect



The Argument from Echoes



Do Echoes Show That Sounds Are Not Events?



Sounds Do Not Travel



Reencountering Sounds



Trick Reencounters



Echoes



The Problem of Echoes



The Solution



Are Echoes Distinct Sounds?



Are Echoes Images?



Is the Illusion Tolerable?



Hearing Recorded Sounds



The Puzzle of Recorded Sounds



Spatial Perspective in Perception



Perspective in Audition



Do Kind Differences Matter?



Perspective and Perceiving



Hearing and Seeing the Past



Hearing Musical Performances



Cross-Modal Illusions



A Puzzle about Audition



The Composite Snapshot Conception of Perceptual Experience



Cross-Modal Illusions



Explaining Cross-Modal Illusions


References


Index