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13A disjointed account of the illusion of auditory continuity: in favor of hearing everyday sounds but against hearing semantic propertiesInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.I will investigate the auditory illusion of continuity, which is the phenomenon of auditory occlusion in which we are able to hear a sound as continuous even though it has been masked by another sound. This phenomenon seems to have a perceptual nature when it occurs in the context of everyday sounds, while it seems to have a cognitive nature when it occurs in the context of speech sounds. This difference has the following consequences: (1) We need to have a differentiated approach to the study o…Read more
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24Hearing chimerasSynthese 200 (3): 1-20. 2022.I argue that chimericity is a property that we typically experience when listening to multi-instrumental music. It is the property of hearing as a unified whole a melody or a harmony that does not belong to any single sound source but instead consists of the assembling of melodic or harmonic fragments coming from different sources. Chimericity is not reducible to the low-level audible properties of pitch and loudness; it is cognized at the perceptual level thanks to the auditory mechanism of pri…Read more
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300The Ockhamization of the event sources of soundAnalysis 73 (3): 462-466. 2013.There is one character too many in the triad sound, event source, thing source. As there are neither phenomenological nor metaphysical grounds for distinguishing sounds and sound sources, we propose to identify them
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260Some considerations on pitchPhenomenology and Mind 4 244-54. 2013.Pitch is an audible quality of sound which can be explained not only in terms of strong correlation with sound waves’ properties, but also by a neat correlation to the properties of the sounding object. This seems to be in favour of the theory of sound labelled “distal view”, according to which sound is the vibration of the sounding object.
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250The Method of Contrast and the Perception of Causality in AuditionIn Fabio Bacchini at al (ed.), New Advances in Causation, Agency and Moral Responsibility, . pp. 79-93. 2014.The method of contrast is used within philosophy of perception in order to demonstrate that a specific property could be part of our perception. The method is based on two passages. I argue that the method succeeds in its task only if the intuition of the difference, which constitutes the core of the first passage, has two specific traits. The second passage of the method consists in the evaluation of the available explanations of this difference. Among the three outlined options, I will demonst…Read more
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130Towards a rich view of auditory experiencePhilosophical Studies 174 (11): 2629-2643. 2017.In this paper I will argue that the gender properties expressed by human voices are part of auditory phenomenology. I will support this claim by investigating auditory adaptational effects on such properties and contrasting auditory experiences, before and after the adaptational effects take place. In light of this investigation, I will conclude that auditory experience is not limited to low-level properties. Perception appears to be much more informative about the auditory landscape than is com…Read more
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266Narrative and Essayistic TemporalitiesNarration and Reflection, Special Issue of Compar(a)ison: An International Journal of Comparative Literature 49-62. 2015.The issues of this essay concern whether there are ways of experiencing time that are specific to narration and whether such ways can also be applied to the experience of time in reflection. In order to tackle these issues, we shall compare and contrast the experience of time in life with both the temporal experiences of narration and the temporal experiences of reflection. We shall begin, then, with a discussion on what the “experience of time” is, in the attempt of providing a theoretical fram…Read more
Elvira Di Bona
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute - Polonsky Academy
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The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute - Polonsky AcademyPost-doctoral Fellow
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Value Theory |
Philosophy, Misc |