# The non visual senses **Opening (not a real abstract):** We can contrast two approaches to the non-visual senses. The first approach takes vision to be the paradigm sense, the sense on which our understanding of perception and perceptual experience in general can be modelled. Call this the vision-as-paradigm (VAP) approach. According to VAP, the account we give of visual perception can be generalised to the non-visual senses. The alternative (ALT) approach rejects that idea. According to this approach, there are features of the non-visual senses that cannot be accommodated within an account of perception modelled on vision In this chapter I will suggest that the VAP approach should be rejected. I will not, however, provide a knock-down argument against it. Rather, I will suggest that we must reject it if we are to give a satisfactory account of the non-visual **Authors:** [[Nudds]]