Auditory Perception and Sounds
Abstract
It is a commonly held view that auditory perception functions to tell us about
sounds and their properties. In this paper I argue that this common view is
mistaken and that auditory perception functions to tell us about the objects that
are the sources of sounds. In doing so, I provide a general theory of auditory
perception and use it to give an account of the content of auditory experience
and of the nature of sounds.