Against hearing meanings

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 61, Issue 245, 2011, Pages 783-807

  O'Callaghan, Casey ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 80053568647     PISSN: 00318094     EISSN: 14679213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2011.704.x     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. G. Strawson, Mental Reality, 2nd edn (MIT Press, 2010), p. 340.
2. N. Block, 'On a Confusion about a Function of Consciousness', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 18 (1995), pp. 227-47, at p. 234.
3. M. Tye, Consciousness, Color, and Content (MIT Press, 2000), p. 61.
4. J. Prinz, 'Beyond Appearances: the Content of Sensation and Perception', in T.S. Gend- ler and J. Hawthorne (eds), Perceptual Experience (Oxford UP, 2006), pp. 434-59, at p. 452.
5. S. Siegel, 'Which Properties are Represented in Perception?', in Gendler and Hawthorne (eds), Perceptual Experience, pp. 481-503, at p. 490.
6. T. Bayne, 'Perception and the Reach of Phenomenal Content', The Philosophical Quarterly, 59 (2009), pp. 385-404, at p. '90.
7. See R.E. Remez et al., 'Speech Perception without Traditional Speech Cues', Science, 212 (1981), pp. 947-50.
8. For those in favour, see, e.g., Strawson, Mental Reality;
9. C. Siewert, The Significance of Consciousness (Princeton UP, 1998);
10. D. Pitt, 'The Phenomenology of Cognition, or, What is it Like to Think that p?', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 69 (2004), pp. 1-36.
11. For those against, see, e.g., W.S. Robinson, 'Thoughts Without Distinctive Non-Imagistic Phenomenology', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 70 (2005), pp. 534-61;
12. Prinz, 'Beyond Appearances'.
13. J. McDowell, Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality (Harvard UP, 1998), p. 99.
14. See B.C. Smith, 'Speech Sounds and the Direct Meeting of Minds', in M. Nudds and C. O'Callaghan (eds), Sounds and Perception: New Philosophical Essays (Oxford UP, 2009), pp. 183-210, for explication, commentary and dissent.
15. Siewert, The Significance of Consciousness, ch. 8, discusses an example of this kind in relation to cognition.
16. The controversial 'beads on a string' analogy traces to L. Bloomfield, Language (New York: Holt, 1933)
17. I. Appelbaum, 'The Dogma of Isomorphism: a Case Study from Speech Perception', Philosophy of Science, 66 (i999), pp. S250-S259.
18. See F.S. Cooper et al., 'Some Experiments on the Perception of Synthetic Speech Sounds', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2' (1952), pp. 597-606;
19. B. Gick and D. Derrick, 'Aero-tactile Integration in Speech Perception', Nature, 462 (2009), pp. 502-;
20. H. McGurk and J. MacDonald, 'Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices', Nature, 264 (1976), pp. 746-8.
21. P.D. Eimas et al., 'Speech Perception in Infants', Science, 171 (1971), pp. 303-6, is the sem inal paper;
22. P.W. Jusczyk, The Discovery of Spoken Language (MIT Press, 1997), provides a good start in this literature.
23. S. Harnad, Categorical Perception: the Groundwork of Cognition (Cambridge UP, 1987), is a classic resource on categorical perception, and contains a number of informative discussions of categorical perception and learning for speech.
24. See the descriptions and illuminating quotations in D. Poeppel, 'Pure Word Deafness and the Bilateral Processing of the Speech Code', Cognitive Science, 25 (2001), pp. 679-93, esp. p. 681.