Can We Hear Silence?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F20%3A10409789" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/20:10409789 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=e4-K-FvIn9" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=e4-K-FvIn9</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-019-00076-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11406-019-00076-6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Can We Hear Silence?

Original language description

We can hear silence because silence, an absence of sound, causes our hearing of it. Advocating this position, Roy Sorensen puts to use his own theory of the direct perception of absences. Sorensen&apos;s theory, which relies on two theories of perception (the causal theory of perception and the theory of non-epistemic perception), certainly has its appeal. However, it also has its problematic aspects. On my reading, a weak point of his theory is that it does not provide a criterion for the identification of what exactly we hear. By elaborating this objection in detail, I intend to demonstrate that Sorensen&apos;s theory (i) does not concern direct (non-epistemic) perception, and (ii) does not show that silence is causally efficient. Therefore, (iii) it fails to show that silence is the genuine negative object of hearing. I conclude by giving two further reasons for why the ontology that underpins Sorensen&apos;s theory should not be endorsed.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-05919S" target="_blank" >GA17-05919S: Between Perception and Propositional Knowledge</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Philosophia

ISSN

0048-3893

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

Neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

48

Country of publishing house

IL - THE STATE OF ISRAEL

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

33-53

UT code for WoS article

000519447200002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85064642570