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Fulkerson, Matthew, 1977-

The first sense : a philosophical study of human touch / Matthew Fulkerson. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 What Is Touch? -- 2 The Unity of Human Touch -- 3 Exploratory Action in Touch -- 4 Touch and Bodily Awareness -- 5 Tangible Qualities -- 6 Distal Touch -- 7 Pleasant Touch -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Fulkerson offers a philosophical account of human touch, one informed and constrained by empirical work on touch. He begins by arguing that human touch, despite its functional diversity, is a single, unified sensory modality. From there, he describes and argues for a novel, unifying role for exploratory action in touch. Later chapters fill in the details of this unified, exploratory form of perception, offering philosophical accounts of tool use and distal touch, the representational structure of tangible properties, the spatial content of touch, and the role of pleasure in tactual experience.


English.

ISBN: 9780262318471 0262318474 0262318482 9780262318488

Source: 9605 MIT Press 9780262318471 MIT Press

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Touch.
Senses and sensation.
Touch
Sensation
Toucher.
Sens et sensations.
touch.
PSYCHOLOGY--Physiological Psychology.
Senses and sensation
Touch

Subjects--Index Terms: PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General

LC Class. No.: BF275 / .F79 2014eb

Dewey Class. No.: 152.1/82

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2014 C-599 WR 102