TY - JOUR
T1 - In defense of medial theories of sound
AU - Meadows, Phillip John
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
PY - 2018/7
Y1 - 2018/7
N2 - In the recent literature on the nature of sound, there is an emerging consensus rejection of what might be thought of as the scientifically informed commonsense position: that sounds, whatever else they may be, must be entities that mediate between the source of the sound and the subject hearing it. This paper offers an argument for such "medial" theories of sound. This argument is intended to shift attention from the two considerations that have dominated the debate thus far: the relevant scientific facts about audition and the spatial phenomenology of auditory experience.
AB - In the recent literature on the nature of sound, there is an emerging consensus rejection of what might be thought of as the scientifically informed commonsense position: that sounds, whatever else they may be, must be entities that mediate between the source of the sound and the subject hearing it. This paper offers an argument for such "medial" theories of sound. This argument is intended to shift attention from the two considerations that have dominated the debate thus far: the relevant scientific facts about audition and the spatial phenomenology of auditory experience.
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U2 - 10.2307/45128622
DO - 10.2307/45128622
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85048989727
SN - 0003-0481
VL - 55
SP - 293
EP - 302
JO - American Philosophical Quarterly
JF - American Philosophical Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -