Readership: Advanced students and scholars of philosophy; psychologists interested in sound.
Edited by Matthew Nudds, Edinburgh University, and Casey O'Callaghan, Rice University
1: Casey O'Callaghan and Matthew Nudds: Introduction: the philosophy of sounds and auditory perception 2: Casey O'Callaghan: Sounds and events 3: Roger Scruton: Sounds as secondary objects and pure events 4: Matthew Nudds: Sounds and space 5: Roberto Casati and Jérôme Dokic: Some varieties of spatial hearing 6: Brian O'Shaughnessy: The location of a perceived sound 7: Roy Sorenson: Hearing silence: the perception and introspection of absences 8: Andy Hamilton: The sound of music 9: Barry Smith: Speech sounds and the direct meeting of minds 10: Christopher Mole: The Motor Theory of speech perception 11: Robert E. Remez and J. D. Trout: Philosophical messages in the medium of spoken language Index