# richardson2011 **Opening (not a real abstract):** When we perceive tactually, we also have bodily sensations. For instance, when I pick up a cup of coffee, as well as perceiving the cup by touch, I have sensations of pressure and heat in my hand. This, I take it, is uncontroversial. It’s also natural to say that touch is a particularly ‘bodily’ sense—at least, it is bodily in a way that vision and hearing aren’t. One way to fill this out is to say that we perceive tactually by having these bodily sensations. On this view, tactile perception is indirect—bodily sensations mediate touch. But it’s difficult to describe the sense in which touch is thus mediated, and the lack of a convincing account of this mediation is an obstacle to accepting this way of spelling out the peculiar bodiliness of the sense of touch. In this paper, I offer an account of the role of bodily sensation in touch. **Authors:** [[Bodily Sensation and Tactile]]