This paper addresses the nature of touch or 'tactual perception'. I argue that touch
encompasses a wide range of perceptual achievements, that treating it as a number of …

This paper explores the phenomenology of touch and proposes that the structure of touch
serves to cast light on the more general way in which we 'find ourselves in a world'. Recent …

Because philosophical reflections on touch usually start from our ability to perceive
properties of objects, they tend to overlook features of touch that are crucial to correct …

Which of the senses is No. 1? A silly question, no doubt; but since I have a weakness for
picking XI's or XV's or XVIII's as the case may be, let us pursue it a little further. Pretty plainly …

When we perceive tactually, we also have bodily sensations. For instance, when I pick up a
cup of coffee, as well as perceiving the cup by touch, I have sensations of pressure and heat …

Most philosophical discussions of perception concentrate on vision. There is also a
tendency in some areas of philosophy to think of our more general perceptual and cognitive …

In this paper, I argue that in touch, as in vision and audition, we can and often do perceive
objects and properties even when we are not in direct or even apparent bodily contact with …

Since Aristotle, touch has been found especially hard to define. One of the few unchallenged
intuition about touch, however, is that tactile awareness entertains some especially close …

We can tell what the shape or size of an object is by either sight or touch. These two senses
are very different in character, not only in the mechanisms of perception—the physical …

An empirically informed philosophical account of human touch as a single, unified sensory
modality that plays a central role in perception. It is through touch that we are able to interact …