A touch of blossom

This chapter briefly reviews recent empirical research on touch, including the role of touch in early development, emotions that can be conveyed by touch, the importance of touch f...

Touch is the ability to perceive the world through physical contact. This article describes three principles underlying biological touch sensing and how these principles can result...

This chapter argues for the existence of a specific irreplaceable epistemic good: being in touch. Being in touch is more or less the good of perceiving or experiencing things as th...

This in-depth and original study examines 100 productions and analyses why George Abbott’s name became synonymous with the ‘golden age’ of Broadway. What did Abbott contribute? How...

This chapter on biohybrid touch interfaces discusses the importance of touch in everyday life, namely in object manipulation, embodiment, and emotional communication. It then descr...

After considering the possibility of a deontological application of the notion of being in touch, this chapter argues that compassionate agents achieve intuitively correct moral co...

This chapter argues that only compassion can provide the epistemic good of putting an agent in touch with a suffering creature’s pain. The argument proceeds by showing that only co...

Stevenson himself declared that ‘style is of the essence of thinking’, but detractors thought him all style and no substance, a brilliant but vacuous mimic, while even admirers wor...