A Theory of Sentience

• The first philosophical treatment of sensation informed by modern science
• A brilliant synthesis of the findings of different disciplines
• Features fascinating explorations of everyday phenomena and puzzles
• Beautifully written; accessible equally to philosophers and psychologists

Readership: Philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists interested in sensation and perception.

Austen Clark, Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut, Storrs

"A Theory of Sentience is as valuable for the questions it opens up as for the positive theory it puts forward. Austen Clark has brought to our attention a way of thinking about the details of sensory experience which opens up possibilities for fruitful interaction between philosophy, pscychophysics and the neurosciences. It is refreshing to read an exploration of sensory experience which fixes the terrain of investigation firmly within the actual world and which works hard to define tractable problems based around the basic, but often neglected, truth that sensory experience is sensory experience of a three-dimensional environment." - Mind

"There is much of interest to cognitive scientists working on the intentionality of sensation." - Barbara Montero, Times Literary Supplement

1. Quality Space; 2. Qualities and their Places; 3. Places Phenomenal and Real; 4. Sensing and Reference; 5. The Feature-Placing Hypothesis; 6. True Theories, False Colours; References; Index