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What are Senses and Sense Modalities?

From the Viewpoint of an Ecological Phenomenology
Published/Copyright: January 20, 2018
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Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy
From the journal Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy Volume 2017 Issue 2

Abstract

Perceptual experiences not only have cognitive aspects, through which we acquire information about some objects, but sensory aspects, through which we experience how the object appears. In the traditional view, the sensory aspects have been reduced to sensations or senses, which have the function of supplying materials for cognition. Against this view, E. Strauss characterized sensing as a kind of “communication” with the world in a pathetic dimension and each sense modality as a way of embodied “Being in the world” in its own way. My paper tries to combine this phenomenological view of senses with the ecological approach of J.J. Gibson, according to which senses are considered as perceptual systems. With this attempt at an ecological phenomenology, the paper focuses on the embodiment dimension of perceptual experiences and clarifies the multi-dimensional and multi-sensory character of various perceptual experiences.

Published Online: 2018-1-20
Published in Print: 2017-12-20

© 2018 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Titelei
  2. Editorial Preface
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Embodiment
  6. I. Experiencing the Living Body — 体验生命体
  7. The Felt Body and Embodied Communication
  8. Der Leib als Umschlagstelle zwischen Kultur und Natur
  9. Exploring Pregnant Embodiment with Phenomenology and Butoh Dance
  10. What are Senses and Sense Modalities?
  11. Phenomenology of Embodied Personhood and the Challenges of Naturalism in Pain Research
  12. II. Collective Bodies and Bodily Resonance — 共同一体和身体共鸣
  13. “… so etwas wie Leiblichkeit.”
  14. Mass Emotion and Shared Feelings
  15. On Bodily Resonance
  16. III. Embodiment, Mediality and Aesthetics — 具身、媒介与美学
  17. Aesthetic Turn
  18. Felt-Bodily Resonances
  19. Body, Language and Mediality
  20. Bodily Dasein and Chinese Script Components
  21. The Metaphor of the Net
  22. IV. After Heidegger — 后海德格尔
  23. “I” “here” and “you” “there”
  24. Living in the Moment
  25. Heidegger on the Problem of the Embodiment of God
  26. V. Parallels with Phenomenolgy — 与现象学的共性
  27. From the Analysis of the Political Embodiment in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks to a Brief Comparison With Confucianism
  28. Phenomenology of Embodied Intersubjectivity
  29. Toward a Liberative Phenomenology of Zen
  30. VI. Complements to Phenomenology — 对现象学的补充
  31. The Normative Body and the Embodiment of Norms
  32. On the Possibility of a Disembodied Mind
  33. VII. Miscellaneous — 年度文选
  34. Criticism of Gehlen’s Theory of Instinct-Reduction and Phenomenological Clarification of the Concept of Instinct as the Genetic Origin of Embodied Consciousness
  35. Technology, Dao-Technē and Home
  36. Moral Conflicts and the Application of Ethics
  37. Is “Intention” Present or Not?
  38. The First Philosophical Word
  39. Bio-Bibliography
  40. Name Index
https://doi.org/10.1515/yewph-2017-0007

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Titelei
  2. Editorial Preface
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Embodiment
  6. I. Experiencing the Living Body — 体验生命体
  7. The Felt Body and Embodied Communication
  8. Der Leib als Umschlagstelle zwischen Kultur und Natur
  9. Exploring Pregnant Embodiment with Phenomenology and Butoh Dance
  10. What are Senses and Sense Modalities?
  11. Phenomenology of Embodied Personhood and the Challenges of Naturalism in Pain Research
  12. II. Collective Bodies and Bodily Resonance — 共同一体和身体共鸣
  13. “… so etwas wie Leiblichkeit.”
  14. Mass Emotion and Shared Feelings
  15. On Bodily Resonance
  16. III. Embodiment, Mediality and Aesthetics — 具身、媒介与美学
  17. Aesthetic Turn
  18. Felt-Bodily Resonances
  19. Body, Language and Mediality
  20. Bodily Dasein and Chinese Script Components
  21. The Metaphor of the Net
  22. IV. After Heidegger — 后海德格尔
  23. “I” “here” and “you” “there”
  24. Living in the Moment
  25. Heidegger on the Problem of the Embodiment of God
  26. V. Parallels with Phenomenolgy — 与现象学的共性
  27. From the Analysis of the Political Embodiment in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks to a Brief Comparison With Confucianism
  28. Phenomenology of Embodied Intersubjectivity
  29. Toward a Liberative Phenomenology of Zen
  30. VI. Complements to Phenomenology — 对现象学的补充
  31. The Normative Body and the Embodiment of Norms
  32. On the Possibility of a Disembodied Mind
  33. VII. Miscellaneous — 年度文选
  34. Criticism of Gehlen’s Theory of Instinct-Reduction and Phenomenological Clarification of the Concept of Instinct as the Genetic Origin of Embodied Consciousness
  35. Technology, Dao-Technē and Home
  36. Moral Conflicts and the Application of Ethics
  37. Is “Intention” Present or Not?
  38. The First Philosophical Word
  39. Bio-Bibliography
  40. Name Index
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