Sounds

Casey O'Callaghan

OUP 2007

 

Table of Contents

 

Preface

 

Acknowledgments

 

Chapter 1 Sonic realism

1.1 The tyranny of the visual

1.2 Sounds and visuocentrism

1.3 Toward sonic realism

 

Chapter 2 What is a sound?

2.1 What kind of thing is a sound?

2.2 Sounds as properties

2.3 Sounds as waves

 

Chapter 3 The locations of sounds

3.1 Where are sounds?

3.2 Locational hearing

3.3 Located sounds

3.4 ‘Coming from’

3.5 Sounds without locations?

3.6 Locatedness and the metaphysics of sounds

3.7 The durations of sounds

 

Chapter 4 The argument from vacuums

4.1 Sounds in vacuums?

4.2 The argument from vacuums

4.3 The medium as a necessary condition

4.4 Involving the medium

 

Chapter 5 Sounds as events

5.1 Sounds are events

5.2 Disturbings

5.3 Individuating sounds

5.4 Two objections

5.5 Sounds, waves, and experience

 

Chapter 6 Audible qualities

6.1 Periodicity and pitch

6.2 Pitch and the event theory of sounds

6.3 Loudness

6.4 Timbre

 

Chapter 7 Sound-related phenomena

7.1 Explaining sound-related phenomena

7.2 Transmission

7.3 Destructive and constructive interference

7.4 The Doppler effect

 

Chapter 8 The argument from echoes

8.1 Do echoes show that sounds are not events?

8.2 Sounds do not travel

8.3 Re-encountering sounds

8.4 Trick re-encounters

 

Chapter 9 Echoes

9.1 The problem of echoes

9.2 The solution

9.3 Are echoes distinct sounds?        

9.4 Are echoes images?

9.5 Is the illusion tolerable?

 

Chapter 10 Hearing recorded sounds

10.1 The puzzle of recorded sounds

10.2 Spatial perspective in perception

10.3 Perspective in audition

10.4 Do kind differences matter?

10.5 Perspective and perceiving

10.6 Hearing and seeing the past

10.7 Hearing musical performances

 

Chapter 11 Cross-modal illusions

11.1 A puzzle about audition

11.2 The ‘composite snapshot’ conception of perceptual experience

11.3 Cross-modal illusions

11.4 Explaining cross-modal illusions

 

References

 

Index