University Press Scholarship Online Oxford Scholarship Online U Distinguishing the Commonsense Senses Roberto Casati Jérôme Dokic François Le Corre DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199832798.003.0020 This chapter proposes a methodological strategy to investigate the individuation of the senses from both a commonsensical and a scientific point of view. It starts by discussing some traditional and recent criteria for distinguishing the senses, and argues that none of them taken in isolation seems able to handle both points of view. It then pays close attention to the faculty of hearing, which offers promising examples of the strategy of combining common sense and science. The argument is made in favor of a distinction between two kinds of modes of presentation associated with sound perception: a mechanical mode of presentation that makes sounds perceptible by other modalities than audition such as touch, and a tonal mode of presentation that makes people conceive of sounds as the proper objects of auditory perception. Keywords: distinction of the senses, sound perception, sensory content, qualia, mode of presentation Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter. Please, subscribe or login to access full text content. If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian. To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us . PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.oxfordscholarship.com). (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2018. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in OSO for personal use (for details see http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/page/privacy--policy).date: 31 August 2018 Perception and Its Modalities Dustin Stokes, Mohan Matthen, and Stephen Biggs Print publication date: 2014 Print ISBN--13: 9780199832798 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2014 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199832798.001.