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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

One of the things that worry me most is the notion of sensations or sense-impressions. It
seems, on the one hand, very hard to avoid saying that hearing, seeing, and tasting could …

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 …

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 …

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 …

1. To start right off with an attempt to contrast object-having and objectless acts of sensing
would indeed be to start in the middle of things. There are, of course, no absolute …

This is a portion of the eBook at doi: 10.7551/mitpress/7111.001. 0001 situation in which this
view might be taken may perhaps be indicated if we consider the assaults made by …