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The first sense : a philosophical study of human touch / Matthew Fulkerson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780262318471
  • 0262318474
  • 0262318482
  • 9780262318488
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: First sense.DDC classification:
  • 152.1/82 23
LOC classification:
  • BF275 .F79 2014eb
NLM classification:
  • 2014 C-599
  • WR 102
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)672905

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

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.

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.