ABSTRACT
Our discussions thus far have focused exclusively on vision, but human beings have a number of other senses, too. When we consider all of our senses together, there are lots of interesting philosophical questions that arise. For one, how many senses do we have? The traditional view (which dates back to Aristotle-De Anima, 424b: 22-23) is that we have five: vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. Others have suggested that we have as many as seventeen different senses (Keeley 2002: 10). In this chapter we shall begin by asking what distinguishes the sense modalities from one another, before going on to ask what philosophers of perception have to say about the nonvisual senses.
