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Projects / Programmes
Names at the tip of the nose: naming, smell and truth
Research activity
| Code | Science | Field | Subfield |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.10.00 | Humanities | Philosophy |
| Code | Science | Field |
|---|---|---|
| 6.03 | Humanities | Philosophy, Ethics and Religion |
Keywords
theoretical psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, poststructuralism, structuralism, smell
Evaluation
(metodology)
Points
11,650.58
A''
2,061.43
A'
7,547.47
A1/2
8,277.47
CI10
1,254
CImax
250
h10
17
A1
25.66
A3
0.14
Data for the last 5 years (citations for the last 10 years) on
October 15, 2025;
Data for score A3 calculation refer to period
2020-2024
Data for ARIS tenders (
04.04.2019 – Programme tender,
archive
)
Citations
Citations for bibliographic records in COBIB.SI that are linked to records in citation databases
| Database | Linked records | Citations | Pure citations | Average pure citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WoS | 76 | 1,090 | 1,085 | 14.28 |
| Scopus | 91 | 1,889 | 1,876 | 20.62 |
Organisations (1) , Researchers (6)
0581 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
| no. | Code | Name and surname | Research area | Role | Period | No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 36342 | Philosophy | Head | 2022 - 2025 | 165 | |
| 2. | 09979 | Philosophy | Researcher | 2022 - 2025 | 2,102 | |
| 3. | 29356 | Philosophy | Researcher | 2022 - 2025 | 200 | |
| 4. | 25580 | Philosophy | Researcher | 2022 - 2025 | 105 | |
| 5. | 36343 | Philosophy | Researcher | 2022 - 2025 | 55 | |
| 6. | 33081 | Philosophy | Researcher | 2022 - 2025 | 213 |
Abstract
This project addresses the befuddling relationship between names and smells, taking its cue from the tip-of-the-nose phenomenon, indicating a well-documented human inability of odor-identification. The project relates this impossibility to a striking linguistic fact that, in Indo-European languages at least, smells altogether lack proper names. We name smells either eponymously by relating them to their sources or synesthetically by borrowing their names from the other senses. Consequently, smells stand for lexical voids and represent the singular site of a universal linguistic disturbance: a universal olfactory anomia. Thus, the primary scientific objective of the project is to examine the relationship between naming and the nameless realm of smells.