Empty Space, Silence, and Absence

Gow, Laura ORCID: 0000-0002-7521-8480 (2021) Empty Space, Silence, and Absence. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, 51 (7). pp. 496-507.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/can.2022.9

Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The idea that we can perceive absences is becoming increasingly popular in contemporary philosophy of mind, and seeing empty space and hearing silence are alleged to be two paradigmatic examples. In this paper, I remain neutral over the question of whether empty space experiences and experiences of silence are genuinely perceptual phenomena, however, I argue that these experiences do not qualify as absence experiences. Consequently, our experiences of empty space and silence cannot be appealed to as proof of the perceptual view of absence experience.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Perception, perceptual experience, cognitive phenomenology, absence, silence, empty space
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of the Arts
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	06 Apr 2022 13:23
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 09:48
DOI:	10.1017/can.2022.9
Open Access URL:	https://doi.org/10.1017/can.2022.9
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3152284