Theoretical Perspectives on Smell

✍ Scribed by Andreas Keller, Benjamin D. Young

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Theoretical Perspective on Smell is the first collection of scholarly articles to be devoted exclusively to philosophical research on olfaction. The essays, published here for the first time, bring together leading theorists working on smell in a format that allows for deep engagement with the emerging field, while also providing those new to the philosophy of smell with a resource to begin their journey. The volume’s 14 chapters are organized into four parts:

I. The Importance and Beauty of Smell
II. Smell in Time and Space
III. What We Perceive through Smell
IV. Smell and Other Senses

The collection solidifies the area as an important emerging branch of perceptual philosophy by presenting the cutting edge research being done by innovative early career researchers, as well as by those more senior and established within the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Editors
List of Contributors
1 Editorial Introduction – Overview of the Collection
PART I: The Importance and Beauty of Smell
2 The Role of Smell in Consciousness
3 The Metacognitive Gap: Why We Both Trust and Mistrust Our Sense of Smell
4 Perfumes and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature
5 Aesthetics, Olfaction, and Environment
PART II: Smell in Time and Space
6 Scent and the Space Between Us
7 The Temporal Structure of Olfactory Experience
PART III: What We Perceive through Smell
8 How Biology Perceives Chemistry: A Causal Analysis of the Stimulus in Olfaction and Its Implications for Scientific and Philosophical Theorizing
9 The Accuracy Conditions of Olfactory Perception
10 Maybe We Don't Smell Molecular Structure
11 Stuff and Nonsense: Against Mizrahi on Olfaction
12 The Layering of Smell
PART IV: Smell and the Other Senses
13 From Odours to Flavours: Perceptual Organisation in the Chemical Senses
14 Seeing and Hearing Flavours
15 Smelling Gustatory Properties
Index