Touch

Overthink

Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Touch, texture, and tickling. From touch working as a form of recognition to the sensation of shapes, touch is a part of our everyday lives. In episode 63 of Overthink, Ellie and David begin their series on the five senses with touch. They discuss the significance of Cinderella’s original fur slipper and why Lucretius believed that milk and honey particles have a smooth, round shape. They also consider why some ancient philosophers consider touch the primary sense and what we learn about the nature of the self from the phenomenology of touching and being touched.

Works Discussed

Matthew Fulkerson, The First Sense: A Philosophical Study of Human Touch
Galen, Complete Works
G. Stanley Hall, "The Psychology of Tickling, Laughing and the Comic"
William Harvey, The Circulation of the Blood and Other Writings
Edmund Husserl, Cartesian Meditations
Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers and Charles T. Wolfe,“The senses in philosophy and science: from the nobility of sight to the materialism of touch”
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible
Daniel Heller-Roazen, The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation
Michel Serres, The Five Senses

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm David Pena-Gusman.
0:11.5	Hey, everybody. This is Ellie Anderson.
0:14.1	Welcome to Overthink, the podcast where two buddies hang out and talk about philosophy.
0:20.4	It's not just two buddies, David.
0:22.2	The key part is that we're friends who are also professors.
0:26.2	The key is that we are buds.
0:28.4	That's what people love about our podcast, Ellie.
0:30.5	Buddies.
0:31.3	How about bros?
0:32.4	I'm going to see bros in a movie tomorrow.
0:34.3	I prefer cis.
0:37.4	That's true. That's true. That is a more fitting term for us.
0:41.4	In any case, today is the first of a five-episode series on the Five Senses, and we're starting
0:49.7	with Touch. We also want to let you know that we are pairing this podcast series with some YouTube
0:55.8	interviews over on our YouTube channel. And over there, we are interviewing a bunch of different
1:00.8	experts on the five senses, many of whom are philosophers, but some of whom are experts in other
1:05.7	fields, including a perfumer, neuroscientist, people in the medical profession, fascinating stuff.
1:14.2	So if you want to sort of supplement the philosophical discussions that David and I are having
1:18.7	between each other in these episodes on the series, you can check out our YouTube channel
1:23.2	for the fun interviews that we are doing with experts.
1:26.3	And let me just say that it was so much fun talking with all these people about their
1:29.4	areas of expertise in connection to the census.
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