Mitchell, Jonathan: The Spatiality of Haptic Touch and Tactual Filling-in

_Australasian Journal of Philosophy_. forthcomingThere is a puzzle concerning haptic touch that has by and large gone unnoticed in the philosophical and psychological literature. This puzzle arises from a tension between two claims concerning the spatial phenomenology of haptic perceptual experience: first, that we experience the objects of haptic perception as spatially continuous unified items; second, that we are limited to specific points of contact with such objects in any given moment of h