Clare Batty
Biography
Clare Batty is a philosopher specializing in the philosophy of perception, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology, with a particular focus on olfactory experience. Her research challenges the traditional philosophical emphasis on vision, arguing that olfactory experience represents objects in ways not easily read from the dominant visual case.
Sample Works
- Scents and Sensibilia (2010) Paper
- Smelling Lessons (2011) Paper
- A Representational Account of Olfactory Experience (2010) Paper
- What's That Smell? (2009) Paper
- Olfactory Experience I: The Content of Olfactory Experience (2010) Paper
Roundtable Appearances
April 13, 2024 · ▶ Video
Discovering the What and the Wherefore: Scents and Sensibility
The roundtable examines olfaction as the first remote sense, exploring how smell creates "a series of pathways laid out on gradients" that orient organisms toward meaningful...
Clare Batty, James Bower, Andreas Keller, John McGann, Dmitry Rinberg, Mark Smith