{"id":31,"date":"2015-05-07T09:39:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T09:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=31"},"modified":"2019-04-29T10:23:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T10:23:47","slug":"seminar-dr-phillip-meadows-3-june-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Seminar: Dr Phillip Meadows, 3 June 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mind Meaning and Rationality group seminar <\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Dr Phillip Meadows (The University of Manchester)<br \/>\nIn defence of medial theories of sounds<br \/>\n3 June 2015<\/h4>\n<p>The recent literature on the nature of\u00a0sounds has produced a consensus rejection of what might be thought of as the scientifically informed common-sense position:\u00a0that sounds, whatever else they may be, must be an entity mediate\u00a0between the\u00a0source of the sound and the subject hearing it. In this paper I attempt to (i)\u00a0resist the motivations for this\u00a0rejection of what has been called a\u00a0medial\u00a0theory\u00a0of sounds,\u00a0and (ii) provide an\u00a0independent argument\u00a0for medial theories of sounds. This latter argument is intended\u00a0to shift attention from the two considerations that have dominated the debate\u00a0thus far: the\u00a0relevant scientific facts about audition, and the spatial\u00a0phenomenology of auditory experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mind Meaning and Rationality group seminar Dr Phillip Meadows (The University of Manchester) In defence of medial theories of sounds 3 June 2015 The recent literature on the nature of\u00a0sounds has produced a consensus rejection of what might be thought of as the scientifically informed common-sense position:\u00a0that sounds, whatever else they may be, must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,34],"tags":[4,18],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events-publications","category-research-seminars","tag-mind-meaning-and-rationality","tag-seminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}