ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that the vision-as-paradigm (VAP) approach should be rejected. It provides a knock-down argument against it. The chapter focuses on two senses—audition and olfaction—and describes a feature of both that cannot be accommodated within the VAP approach. The feature in question highlights an important difference between vision and the non-visual senses of olfaction and audition—a difference in the relation between what philosophers perceive and what they are perceptually aware of. The non-visual senses may differ from vision in their "objects", but the fundamental nature of the perceptual relation, and of perceptual experience, is the same for these senses as it is for vision. According to alternative, auditory and olfactory perception are for the perception of the sources of sounds and smells. The sources of sounds and smells are material objects, events, and stuffs. The fundamental task of an account of olfaction and audition is to understand the perception of the sources of sounds and smells.
