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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fulkerson, Matthew, 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Touch.

Senses and sensation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 219 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Intro

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-31848-2

0-262-31847-4

OCLC:

865508694