A group of renowned highly skilled artists were interviewed with regard to day-to-day sensory engagement. Their observations are discussed together with the part played by the senses in skilled manual processes, particularly those that include a significant creative element. Their personal evaluation of the relative importance of these various senses in specific processes is presented and tabul...

Polysemy is pervasive in natural languages, and affects both content and function words. While deciding which sense is intended on a given occasion of use rarely seems to cause any difficulty for speakers of a language, polysemy has proved notoriously difficult to treat both theoretically and empirically. Some of the questions that have occupied linguists, philosophers and psychologists interes...

Ever since Frege postulated senses in [1892] and conceived of them as (containing) modes of presentation, serious studies in the philosophy of language have often appealed to these entities. In the recent philosophy of language and mind, however, the notions of ‘mode of presentation’ and ‘concept’ have become more important. It seems fair to say that much of the theorizing involving senses, mod...

Abstract The meanings of words seem to change over time. But while there is a growing body literature in linguistics and philosophy about meaning change, has been little discussion the metaphysical underpinnings change. central aim this paper push forward by surveying terrain advocating for particular picture. In so doing, we hope clarify various aspects nature as well prompt future philosophic...

Chemical senses - especially smell - are known to be important for the fundamental life events such as sensing predators, selecting mates, as well as finding food. The chemical senses are decoded in the olfactory system which is able to detect and differentiate thousands of odorous substances comprised of chemically divergent structures (i.e. odorants). The high selectivity of the olfactory sys...