2018 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Understanding Pictorial Perception
| Project/Area Number |
16K02109
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
オデイ ジョン 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 准教授 (50534377)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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| Keywords | Philosophy of perception |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This project in 2018 focused on the differences between perceptual modalities in respect of differences in their abilities to generate pictorial experience. This issue connects to the more fundamental issue of how ― and whether ― the different sense modalities are different. I presented an argument in July on the nature of the experiential difference between the “traditional” five senses (vision, audition, olfaction, touch, taste). Later in the year, I explored further the link between the experiences of the different senses in the way they each relate to pictorial experience. Pictorial experience is normally taken to be a visual connection, but it is an intriguing question why this is so, and whether (and in what sense) there could be pictorial experience in other modalities.
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