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An empirically informed philosophical account of human touch as a single unified sensory modality that plays a central role in perception It is through touch that we are able to interact directly with the world it is our primary conduit of both pleasure and pain Touch may be our most immediate and powerful sense the first sense because of the central role it plays in experience In this book Matthew Fulkerson proposes that human touch despite its functional diversity is a single unified sensory modality Fulkerson offers a philosophical account of touch reflecting the interests methods and approach that define contemporary philosophy but his argument is informed throughout by the insights and constraints of empirical work on touch Human touch is a multidimensional object of investigation Fulkerson writes best served by using a variety of methods and approaches To defend his view of the unity of touch Fulkerson describes and argues for a novel unifying role for exploratory action in touch He goes on to fill in the details of this unified exploratory form of perception offering philosophical accounts of tool use and distal touch the representational structure of tangible properties the spatial content of touch and the role of pleasure in tactual experience Fulkerson s argument for the unique role played by exploratory action departs notably from traditional vision centric philosophical approaches to perception challenging the received view that action plays the same role in all sensory modalities The robust philosophical account of touch he offers in The First Sense has significant implications for our general understanding of perception and perceptual experience The First Sense A Philosophical Study of Human Touch The MIT Press This was the first philosophy book that I have ever read and I like it There are a few intriguing chapters as to whether touch is multisensory whether it depends on a representation of the body or whether an object has to be in direct contact with the body for one to perceive it as touching the him her That being said I found the chapter on the pleasantness of touch a bit less thoroughly discussed This could well be because this research topic is in its infancy and we need to know about how touch gives rise to a positive or negative affects The fashion industry may be particularly interested in supporting this kind of research given their continuous pursuit for new materials and textiles 9780262019965