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1st Edition

Theoretical Perspectives on Smell

Edited By Andreas Keller, Benjamin D. Young Copyright 2023
304 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

1. Editorial Introduction – Overview of the Collection

Andreas Keller and Benjamin D. Young

Part I: The Importance and Beauty of Smell

2. The Role of Smell in Consciousness
Barry C. Smith

3. The Metacognitive Gap: Why We Both Trust and Mistrust Our Sense of Smell
Ophelia Deroy

4. Perfumes and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature
Chiara Brozzo

5. Aesthetics, Olfaction, and Environment
Michael Aaron Lindquist

Part II: Smell in Time and Space

6. Smell and the Space Between Us
Clare Batty

7. The Temporal Structure of Olfactory Experience
Keith A. Wilson

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
Ann-Sophie Barwich

9. The Accuracy Conditions of Olfactory Perception
Andreas Keller

10. Maybe We Don't Smell Molecular Structure
Benjamin D. Young

11. Stuff and Nonsense: Against Mizrahi on Olfaction
Harry Sherwood

12. The Layering of Smell
William G. Lycan

Part IV: Smell and the Other Senses

13. From Odours to Flavours: Perceptual Organisation in the Chemical Senses
Becky Millar

14. Seeing and Hearing Flavors
Błażej Skrzypulec

15. Smelling Gustatory Qualities
Louise Richardson

Biography

Andreas Keller is Guest Investigator at the Rockefeller University in New York, NY. He has published the results of his psychophysical research in olfaction in journals such as Science and Nature. He is the author of Philosophy of Olfactory Perception (2016).

Benjamin D. Young is Associate Professor in Philosophy and a member of the Graduate Faculty in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience and The Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Nevada, Reno. He conducts research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and philosophy, with a particular emphasis on olfaction, and has published articles in journals such as Mind & Language, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, and Philosophical Studies. He co-edited, with Carolyn Dicey Jennings, the textbook, Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience (2022).

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