Sensory Qualities

`he cogently shows how psychophysiological data and theory may help resolve, or at least constrain the solutions to, several pervasive philosophical issues regarding sensory qualities.' Contemporary Psychology `In Sensory Qualities, Austen Clark explains clearly and in useful detail the statistical techniques used for psychophysiologists to construct various sensory quality spaces.' Philosophical Psychology `Timely and welcome ... The presentation is informative and well argued, providing the best philosophical explication that I have seen of the conceptual structure of standard psychophysical explanation ... an important and much-needed contribution to the philosophy of psychology, one that subsequent discussions of qualia cannot afford to ignore.' The Philosophical Review `Anyone interested in a compact, sophisticated introduction to the study of sense impressions will be glad to find this book ... this systematic inquiry cannot but enrich the acquaintance which readers enjoy with their qualia.' Review of Metaphysics `In Sensory Qualities, Austen Clark explains clearly and in useful detail the statistical techniques used by psychophysiologists to construct various sensory quality spaces.' Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1995 `Sensory Qualities is a clearly written, informative, and stimulating book ... contains clear accounts of interesting results in the psychophysics and neurophysiology of taste, smell and sound, and an appendix that explains the techniques of multidimensional scaling. Its major contribution ... is to have presented a fruitful and interesting way to think about the qualitative character of experience. It may not change minds about the standard arguments against physicalistic theories of qualia, but, in my view, it should.' MIND