Transparency, olfaction and aesthetic

• Autores: Thomas Baker
• Localización: Analysis, ISSN-e 1467-8284, Vol. 76, Nº. 2, 2016
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Many have suggested that, unlike the so-called higher-senses (vision and audition), the lower-senses (olfaction, gustation, and touch) are not capable of providing aesthetic experience. Supporting this is, what I will call, the Transparency-Exteroceptivity Argument, which says that a necessary feature for aesthetic experience is lacking in the case of the lower-senses, namely transparency/exteroceptivity. I argue, contrary to the Transparency-Exteroceptivity Argument, that olfaction can provide transparent access to the properties of particular external objects. I argue that the Transparency-Exteroceptivity Argument relies on a misleading visuocentric and unimodal view of the senses, is guilty of hasty generalization, and should be rejected.