Matthew Nudds is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.Casey O'Callaghan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, and formerly taught at Bates College in Maine. He is the author of Sounds: A Philosophical Theory (OUP, 2007)

With this pioneering and long-overdue collection of essays on auditory perception, Matthew Nudds and Casey O'Callaghan aim to start correcting this state of affairs. They deserve much praise, not least for their own substantial contributions and splendid introduction.

• 1. Introduction: the philosophy of sounds and auditory perception ; 2. Sounds and events ; 3. Sounds as secondary objects and pure events ; 4. Sounds and space ; 5. Some varieties of spatial hearing ; 6. The location of a perceived sound ; 7. Hearing silence: the perception and introspection of absences ; 8. The sound of music ; 9. Speech sounds and the direct meeting of minds ; 10. The Motor Theory of speech perception ; 11. Philosophical messages in the medium of spoken language ; Index

Matthew Nudds is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.Casey O'Callaghan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, and formerly taught at Bates College in Maine. He is the author of Sounds: A Philosophical Theory (OUP, 2007)

With this pioneering and long-overdue collection of essays on auditory perception, Matthew Nudds and Casey O'Callaghan aim to start correcting this state of affairs. They deserve much praise, not least for their own substantial contributions and splendid introduction.

• 1. Introduction: the philosophy of sounds and auditory perception ; 2. Sounds and events ; 3. Sounds as secondary objects and pure events ; 4. Sounds and space ; 5. Some varieties of spatial hearing ; 6. The location of a perceived sound ; 7. Hearing silence: the perception and introspection of absences ; 8. The sound of music ; 9. Speech sounds and the direct meeting of minds ; 10. The Motor Theory of speech perception ; 11. Philosophical messages in the medium of spoken language ; Index

Matthew Nudds is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.Casey O'Callaghan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, and formerly taught at Bates College in Maine. He is the author of Sounds: A Philosophical Theory (OUP, 2007)

With this pioneering and long-overdue collection of essays on auditory perception, Matthew Nudds and Casey O'Callaghan aim to start correcting this state of affairs. They deserve much praise, not least for their own substantial contributions and splendid introduction.

• 1. Introduction: the philosophy of sounds and auditory perception ; 2. Sounds and events ; 3. Sounds as secondary objects and pure events ; 4. Sounds and space ; 5. Some varieties of spatial hearing ; 6. The location of a perceived sound ; 7. Hearing silence: the perception and introspection of absences ; 8. The sound of music ; 9. Speech sounds and the direct meeting of minds ; 10. The Motor Theory of speech perception ; 11. Philosophical messages in the medium of spoken language ; Index