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294Perception, body, and the sense of touch: Phenomenology and philosophy of mindHusserl Studies 25 (2): 97-120. 2009.In recent philosophy of mind, a series of challenging ideas have appeared about the relation between the body and the sense of touch. In certain respects, these ideas have a striking affinity with Husserl’s theory of the constitution of the body. Nevertheless, these two approaches lead to very different understandings of the role of the body in perception. Either the body is characterized as a perceptual “organ,” or the body is said to function as a “template.” Despite its focus on the sense of …Read more
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84The Aesthetics of Space: Modern Architecture and PhotographyJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 69 (1): 105-114. 2011.
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83The Sense of Touch: From Tactility to Tactual ProbingAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 95 (4): 688-701. 2017.Because philosophical reflections on touch usually start from our ability to perceive properties of objects, they tend to overlook features of touch that are crucial to correct understanding of tactual perception. This paper brings out these features and uses them to develop a general reconception of the sense of touch. I start by taking a fresh look at our ability to feel, in order to reveal its vital role. This sheds a different light on the skin's perceptual potential. While it is commonly ob…Read more
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67On the Introduction of the Concept of Phantom in Ideas IINew Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 6 83-107. 2006.
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60Philosophy, Phenomenology, Sciences. Essays in Commemoration of Edmund Husserl (edited book)Springer. 2010.This volume is a broad anthology addressing many if not most major topics in phenomenology and philosophy in general: from foundational and methodological ...
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50Body or Eye: A Matter of Sense and OrganNew Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 8 93-125. 2008.
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29Spatial phenomena in material places. Reflections on sensory substitution, shape perception, and the external nature of the sensesPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 18 (5): 833-854. 2019.From the outside, our senses are spatially integrated in our body in manifestly different ways. This paper starts from the suggestion that the philosophical formulation of the problem of spatial perception, as it flows from the modern opposition of mind and world, is partly responsible for the fact that philosophers have often explicitly disregarded the spatial nature of the senses themselves. An indirect consequence is that much philosophical work focuses on how the senses can – or cannot – per…Read more
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20Meaning and Language: Phenomenological Perspectives (edited book)Springer. 2008.This book is the first anthology to provide a wide-ranging picture of how phenomenology relates to language.
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19Strange Objects, Counterfeits, and Reproductions: Clues for Analyzing Perceptual Experience in the Different SensesHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 16 (1): 84-108. 2013.Our different senses put us in contact with the same world. In this paper, I use unusual objects and situations to bring out structural dissimilarities in the way our senses relate to the same world of material objects. In the first part, I briefly discuss the perceptual presence of spatial and material things. Using uncommon objects allows me to treat this issue without any need to invoke what it is like to have visual experiences. What comes to the fore in these analyses, however, seems less o…Read more
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19Philosophy and 'Experience': A Conflict of Interests?In Carlo Ierna, Hanne Jacobs & Filip Mattens (eds.), PHILOSOPHY PHENOMENOLOGY SCIENCES, Springer. pp. 405-438. 2010.
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13Spatial phenomena in material places. Reflections on sensory substitution, shape perception, and the external nature of the sensesPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 18 (5): 833-854. 2019.From the outside, our senses are spatially integrated in our body in manifestly different ways. This paper starts from the suggestion that the philosophical formulation of the problem of spatial perception, as it flows from the modern opposition of mind and world, is partly responsible for the fact that philosophers have often explicitly disregarded the spatial nature of the senses themselves. An indirect consequence is that much philosophical work focuses on how the senses can – or cannot – per…Read more
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12Introducing TermsIn Meaning and Language: Phenomenological Perspectives, Springer. pp. 281--327. 2008.
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From the origin of spatiality to a variety of spacesIn Dan Zahavi (ed.), Oxford Handbook of the History of Phenomenology, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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Silhouette & manipulationIn Roland Breeur & Ullrich Melle (eds.), Life, Subjectivity, and Art: Essays in honor of Rudolf Bernet, Springer Science+business Media. 2012.