Very happy to have contributed a chapter to this fine collection on the #PhilosophyOfSmell. In it, I focus on the implications of the #temporalStructure of #olfactoryExperience for the #metaphysics and #philosophy of #olfaction, and #perceptualExperience more generally.

In particular, I argue that some (though not all) objects of olfactory experience are temporally extended. This includes both objective properties of the external environment, e.g. concentration gradients, and interactions between odorants and our sensory apparatus at the receptor level.

This makes olfactory experience observer- or perspective-dependent without rendering it subjective or mind-dependent in any philosophically substantive sense. It also opens up the possibility of an event-based metaphysics of olfactory experience.

Along with the rest of the volume, the chapter can be accessed online here: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003207801.

Many thanks to the editors, Ben Young and Andreas Keller, and other contributors for helpful comments and feedback. I look forward to reading the other chapters!

#newPublication #PhilosophyOfPerception #temporalExperience #theSenses #noxp

A terrific paper on the temporal structure of conscious experience by David Builes and Michele Odisseas Impagnatiello: https://philpapers.org/rec/BUIEAT

My only quibble is that the advantages of the proposed ‘Time-Slice Internalism’ also apply to a view on which experience is temporally extended but granular as opposed to mathematically continuous (or gunky).

However, that view may also be problematic, at least for representationalists, for reasons I hint at here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-022-00632-2 and develop further in current work.

In any case, it’s great to read some new work on this fascinating and much overlooked topic. #philosophy #time #temporalExperience #noxp

So it turns out I did have some things to say about how representational views of #perception and #temporalExperience can be integrated with the granular nature of perceptual processing, and some of the difficulties these face.

The feedback was helpful and constructive as always, and raised some interesting questions about temporally extended forms of representation that make me wonder whether retentional and extensional accounts of experience are really as far apart as is made out. #philosophy

I’m giving a talk tomorrow at the Institute of #Philosophy’s lab meeting on ‘The Problem of Temporal Grain: Experiencing Time Across the Senses’.

Tbh I will be as interested to find out what I’ve got to say as anyone else. Something about… #time? 🤔 #perception #TemporalExperience #TheSenses