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The first sense : a philosophical study of human touch /

Fulkerson offers a philosophical account of human touch, one informed and constrained by empirical work on touch. He begins by arguing that human touch, despite its functional diversity, is a single, unified sensory modality. From there, he describes and argues for a novel, unifying role for explora...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fulkerson, Matthew, 1977-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 What Is Touch?
  • 2 The Unity of Human Touch
  • 3 Exploratory Action in Touch
  • 4 Touch and Bodily Awareness
  • 5 Tangible Qualities
  • 6 Distal Touch
  • 7 Pleasant Touch
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.