title: The intentionality of smell.
abstract: If any sense modality represents, vision does, but argument is needed to show that smell does. This paper rebuts two reasons for doubting that smell represents, and offers several arguments that it does. The paper then considers several recent proposals as to exactly what a smell represents, and defends a version of the author's original proposal-that a smell represents a miasma in the air-against its competitors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, USA ; Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut Storrs, CT, USA.
authors.forename: William G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Lycan
keywords: intentionality; objects; olfaction; representation; smell