Umrao Sethi, 2022–23 | National Humanities Center

Umrao Sethi (NHC Fellow, 2022–23)

Project Title

Sensibilia: An Account of Sensory Perception and its Objects

Brandeis University

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Fellowship Work Summary, 2022–23

Umrao Sethi completed three chapters and wrote a substantial portion of two additional chapters of her book manuscript, Sensibilia: An Account of Sensory Perception and its Objects. For two of these chapters, she conducted a significant amount of research into medieval and early modern views in metaphysics. She wrote a chapter for an edited volume, “A (Qualified) Defense of Diaphaneity,” for The Relational View of Perception: New Essays, edited by Ori Beck and Farid Masrour (Routledge). She also finished a journal article titled “An A Priori Constraint on What Science Can Tell Us about Perception” which is currently under review.