Perceptual Ephemera

Most research in philosophy of perception has focused on the perceptual experience of three-dimensional, solid, bounded, and coherent material objects. But we also perceive such things as rainbows, reflections, sounds, and stuff; things that are ‘ephemeral’ in the sense that they can be contrasted, in particular respects, with material objects. This book collects together fourteen new essays on the perceptual experience of ‘ephemera’. A substantive introduction by the editors provides a detailed introduction to the topic as a whole, setting out the background to this emerging area of research in contemporary philosophy of perception. This volume attempts to demonstrate that perceptual ephemera are of significant philosophical interest in their own right, and that research on ephemera provides an original route to a more developed understanding of the perceptual experience of material objects and their properties.