Sniffing and smelling

Richardson, Louise

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“…Another relevant characteristic of visual perceptual units is that they may be tracked through time despite movement and qualitative changes. This is also true of olfactorily represented odours that can tracked despite modifications in their features, for instance, as they change in intensity (Richardson 2013). As shown in experimental research, human olfactory tracking abilities are sufficient to localize odour-sources in natural environments without relying on data from other senses (Porter et al 2007).…”

Section: Odours As Subjectsmentioning

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“…Within the philosophical literature concerning olfaction, there are competing accounts concerning the human olfactory ability to represent space. Minimally, it is claimed that odours are represented as something external to us, which does not necessarily mean that they are represented as having any spatial characteristics (Richardson 2013). According to a different position, all odours are olfactorily represented as located in the same, poorly specified, Bsomewhere around^region (Batty 2010c).…”

Section: Odours As Primary Subjectsmentioning

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Olfactory Objecthood

Skrzypulec

2018

Philosophia

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In the contemporary analytic discussions concerning human olfactory perception, it is commonly claimed that (1) olfactory experiences are representations having content and (2) olfactory experiences represent odours, like coffee odour or vanilla odour. However, despite these common assumptions, there seems to be an ontological controversy between two views: the first states that odours are perceptually represented as features and the second states that they are represented as objects. In this paper, I aim to systematically address the Bfeature or object^status of represented odours by concerning whether odours are represented (a) as subjects of properties, (b) as mereological wholes, and (c) entities persisting in a way characteristic for objects. I argue that olfactorily represented odours constitute a sui generis category and cannot be easily classified as objects or features. Such investigations constitute a step in establishing whether various human modalities are unified by organising the environment according to the same categories.

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Section: Odours As Subjectsmentioning

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Section: Odours As Primary Subjectsmentioning

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Olfactory Objecthood

Skrzypulec

2018

Philosophia

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“…For humans, the latter are the most highly developed senses, but for other animals, olfaction is in many cases the most important sense [367]. Forty million olfactory receptor neurons are responsible for the sense of smell, but there is no formal development for the art of olfaction.…”

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Boundaries of a Complex World

Ludu

2016

Springer Series in Synergetics

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Complexity is an interdisciplinary program publishing the best research and academic-level teaching on both fundamental and applied aspects of complex systemscutting across all traditional disciplines of the natural and life sciences, engineering, economics, medicine, neuroscience, social and computer science.Complex Systems are systems that comprise many interacting parts with the ability to generate a new quality of macroscopic collective behavior the manifestations of which are the spontaneous formation of distinctive temporal, spatial or functional structures. Models of such systems can be successfully mapped onto quite diverse "real-life" situations like the climate, the coherent emission of light from lasers, chemical reaction-diffusion systems, biological cellular networks, the dynamics of stock markets and of the internet, earthquake statistics and prediction, freeway traffic, the human brain, or the formation of opinions in social systems, to name just some of the popular applications.Although their scope and methodologies overlap somewhat, one can distinguish the following main concepts and tools: self-organization, nonlinear dynamics, synergetics, turbulence, dynamical systems, catastrophes, instabilities, stochastic processes, chaos, graphs and networks, cellular automata, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms and computational intelligence.The three major book publication platforms of the Springer Complexity program are the monograph series "Understanding Complex Systems" focusing on the various applications of complexity, the "Springer Series in Synergetics", which is devoted to the quantitative theoretical and methodological foundations, and the "SpringerBriefs in Complexity" which are concise and topical working reports, case-studies, surveys, essays and lecture notes of relevance to the field. In addition to the books in these two core series, the program also incorporates individual titles ranging from textbooks to major reference works.The Springer Series in Synergetics was founded by Herman Haken in 1977. Since then, the series has evolved into a substantial reference library for the quantitative, theoretical and methodological foundations of the science of complex systems.Through many enduring classic texts, such as Haken's Synergetics and Information and Self-Organization, Gardiner's Handbook of Stochastic Methods, Risken's The Fokker Planck-Equation or Haake's Quantum Signatures of Chaos, the series has made, and continues to make, important contributions to shaping the foundations of the field.The series publishes monographs and graduate-level textbooks of broad and general interest, with a pronounced emphasis on the physico-mathematical approach.More information about this series at

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“…Richardson () has drawn philosophical attention to the significance of the act of sniffing for olfactory perception which, she argues, secures the exteroceptive nature of experiences within this modality. During inhalation, when chemical stimulants in the air are drawn into the nasal passageway, odours are experienced as entering the body from outside, and so not simply as located at or in the nose .…”

Section: Embodiment and Olfactory Contentmentioning

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“…In what follows, I suggest that attending to the embodied character of olfactory experience, and to cross-modal contributions from vision and touch, provides an informative way of understanding absence perception in this modality, 13 by showing how it is that olfaction presents us with regions of both space and time that are possible locations for odours. Richardson (2013) has drawn philosophical attention to the significance of the act of sniffing for olfactory perception which, she argues, secures the exteroceptive nature of experiences within this modality. During inhalation, when chemical stimulants in the air are drawn into the nasal passageway, odours are experienced as entering the body from outside, and so not simply as located at or in the nose.…”

Section: Smelling Absencesmentioning

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A Breath of Fresh Air: Absence and the Structure of Olfactory Perception

Roberts

2015

Pacific Philosophical Qtr

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The question of whether we can perceive absences, in addition to 'positives', has received recent attention in the literature on the nature of vision and audition. The aim is to demonstrate that there can be objectless forms of perceptual consciousness; specifically, to show that such episodes can be distinguished from those in which there is merely no perception at all. The current paper explores this question for the domain of olfaction, and argues that there can be experiences of the absence of odours, in addition to positive smell perception. Doing so sheds light upon the structure and spatial content of olfaction.

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Sniffing and smelling

Cited by 53 publications

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Olfactory Objecthood

Olfactory Objecthood

Boundaries of a Complex World

A Breath of Fresh Air: Absence and the Structure of Olfactory Perception

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