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What is Touch?

Ratcliffe, M.

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M. Ratcliffe



Abstract

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 separate senses will not work, and that the permissive conception we are left with is so permissive that it is unclear how touch might be distinguished from the other senses. I conclude that no criteria will succeed in individuating touch. Although I do not rule out the possibility that this also applies to other senses, I suggest that the heterogeneity of touch makes it both distinctive and particularly problematic.

Citation

Ratcliffe, M. (2012). What is Touch?. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 90(3), 413-432. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2011.598173

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2012
Deposit Date Jun 15, 2011
Publicly Available Date Jul 26, 2013
Journal Australasian Journal of Philosophy
Print ISSN 0004-8402
Electronic ISSN 1471-6828
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 90
Issue 3
Pages 413-432
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2011.598173

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