What We Hear

Leddington, Jason

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6001-1_21

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“…In recent years, the audibly apparent close relation between sounds and their sources has been a subject of an in-depth discussion (O'Callaghan 2017, ch. 6, see also Kulvicki 2008;Nudds 2010;Leddington 2014). 13 Given limited space, I will briefly discuss three accounts and apply them to the case of voice and speech sounds.…”

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“…For discussion seeO'Callaghan (2017, pp. 106-108).16 See alsoLeddington's (2014) observations in support of the view that sounds and their sources appear fused or bound in auditory experience.…”

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“…Leddington (2014) provides an interesting discussion of the phenomenology of audible relation between environmental sounds and their sources and argues that sounds are normally experienced as bound or fused to their sources. 12 I thank an anonymous reviewer for raising this issue.…”

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Bringing back the voice: on the auditory objects of speech perception

Drożdżowicz

2020

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When you hear a person speaking in a familiar language you perceive the speech sounds uttered and the voice that produces them. How are speech sounds and voice related in a typical auditory experience of hearing speech in a particular voice? And how to conceive of the objects of such experiences? I propose a conception of auditory objects of speech perception as temporally structured mereologically complex individuals. A common experience is that speech sounds and the voice that produces them appear united. I argue that the metaphysical underpinnings of the experienced unity of speech sounds and voices can be explained in terms of the mereological view on sounds and their sources. I also propose a psychological explanation (the Voice Shaping Speech model) of how we form and individuate the auditory objects of experiences of listening to speech in a particular voice. Voice characteristics enable determining the identity of auditory objects of speech sound perception by making some features of the speech signal stable and predictable.

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2020

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“…Hearing the sound of the bell, construed as a perceptible quality of the bell, just is hearing the bell. Alternatively, sounds can be construed as properties of the events in which ordinary objects participate, such as episodes of colliding, breaking, or bouncing (Leddington 2014(Leddington , 2019. This view permits of the direct auditory perception of such everyday events.…”

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“…Pasnau 1999); and everyday events such as collisions and breakings (e.g. Casati et al 2013;Leddington 2014). If we hear sounds, alone or in conjunction with objects or happenings, then we must address their ontological status: are they waves in an ambient medium (e.g.…”

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Awful noises: evaluativism and the affective phenomenology of unpleasant auditory experience

Roberts

2020

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According to the evaluativist theory of bodily pain, the overall phenomenology of a painful experience is explained by attributing to it two types of representational content—an indicative content that represents bodily damage or disturbance, and an evaluative content that represents that condition as bad for the subject. This paper considers whether evaluativism can offer a suitable explanation of aversive auditory phenomenology—the experience of awful noises—and argues that it can only do so by conceding that auditory evaluative content would be guilty of widespread error. Defending such an error-theory, moreover, comes with several explanatory costs.

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Sounds as properties

Young

2021

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy

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Leddington has recently put forward a new version of the idea that sounds are properties. Whereas other ‘property views’ take material objects to be the bearers of sounds (the sound of a bell being struck is a property instantiated by the bell itself), on Leddington's view sounds are borne by the source events in which these objects are participating (the sound of a bell being struck is a property instantiated by the striking event). In this paper, I argue that the case for events as the bearers of sound properties rather than objects is, at best, ambiguous, and that there are good reasons for wanting to include objects amongst the things we hear. I put forward a new account on which sounds are temporally extended properties of objects. This approach, I argue, not only retains the advantages of Leddington's view, but also allows for the audibility of both objects and events.

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What We Hear

Cited by 25 publications

References 15 publications

Bringing back the voice: on the auditory objects of speech perception

Bringing back the voice: on the auditory objects of speech perception

Awful noises: evaluativism and the affective phenomenology of unpleasant auditory experience

Sounds as properties

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