Clare Batty

Clare Batty is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky and Research Fellow at the Centre for Olfactory Research and Applications at the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.  Her research interests are in the philosophy of perception and in particular the philosophy of olfaction.  She has published numerous papers on the nature of object representation in olfactory experience, including “A Representational Account of Olfactory Experience” (Canadian Journal of Philosophy), “Olfactory Objects” (Oxford) Smelling Lessons (Philosophical Studies), “Scents and Sensibilia” (American Philosophical Quarterly).  More recently, she has turned to issues of property representation—those of humans as well as other animals—and spatial representation. Her most recent publications include “Scent and the Space Between Us” (Routledge) and, with Barry C. Smith, “A World of Odours” (Oxford).  She received her Ph.D. from MIT in 2007.