Primary And Secondary Qualities

Author : Lawrence Nolan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199556156
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primary and Secondary Qualities written by Lawrence Nolan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen new essays trace the historical development of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, a key topic in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of perception. The volume starts with the ancient Greeks, discusses virtually all major figures of the early modern era, and reflects on the place of the topic in philosophy today.

Author : Lawrence Nolan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191618004
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primary and Secondary Qualities written by Lawrence Nolan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen newly commissioned essays trace the historical development of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, which lies at the intersection of issues in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of perception. Primary and Secondary Qualities focuses on the age of the Scientific Revolution, the locus classicus of the distinction, but begins with chapters on ancient Greek and Scholastic accounts of qualities in an effort to identify its origins. The remainder of the volume is devoted to philosophical reflections on qualities from the seventeenth century to the present day. Virtually every major figure is represented from Gassendi to Kant, and special attention is paid to Locke, Descartes, and Hume. The essays collected here cover a wide range of topics, including the foundation for the distinction, the question of whether or not it is metaphysical or merely epistemic, the status of secondary qualities, the nature of sensory representation, the relation between philosophy and science, the status of dispositions, and the semantics of sensible-quality terms.

Author : Mohan Matthen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191669040
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception written by Mohan Matthen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception is a survey by leading philosophical thinkers of contemporary issues and new thinking in philosophy of perception. It includes sections on the history of the subject, introductions to contemporary issues in the epistemology, ontology and aesthetics of perception, treatments of the individual sense modalities and of the things we perceive by means of them, and a consideration of how perceptual information is integrated and consolidated. New analytic tools and applications to other areas of philosophy are discussed in depth. Each of the forty-five entries is written by a leading expert, some collaborating with younger figures; each seeks to introduce the reader to a broad range of issues. All contain new ideas on the topics covered; together they demonstrate the vigour and innovative zeal of a young field. The book is accessible to anybody who has an intellectual interest in issues concerning perception.

Author : George Berkeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous written by George Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Locke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Philosophers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by John Locke and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521267076
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideas, Qualities and Corpuscles written by Peter Alexander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-05-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents a substantial and often radical reinterpretation of some of the central themes of Locke's thought. Professor Alexander concentrates on the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and aims to restore that to its proper historical context. In Part I he gives a clear exposition of some of the scientific theories of Robert Boyle, which, he argues, heavily influenced Locke in employing similar concepts and terminology. Against this background, he goes on in Part II to provide an account of Locke's views on the external world and our knowledge of it. He shows those views to be more consistent and plausible than is generally allowed, demonstrating how they make sense and enable scientific explanations of nature. In examining the views of Locke and Boyle together, the book throws light both on the development of philosophy and the beginnings of modern science, and in particular it makes a considerable and original contribution to our understanding of Locke's philosophy.

Author : Michael Jacovides
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198789866
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Locke's Image of the World written by Michael Jacovides and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Jacovides provides an engaging account of how the scientific revolution influenced one of the foremost figures of early modern philosophy, John Locke. By placing Locke's thought in its scientific, religious, and anti-scholastic contexts, Jacovides explains not only what Locke believes but also why he believes it.

Author : Christopher A. Shrock
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147441785X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Reid and the Problem of Secondary Qualities written by Christopher A. Shrock and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new reading of Thomas Reid on primary and secondary qualities, Christopher A. Shrock illuminates the Common Sense theory of perception. Shrock follow's Reid's lead in defending common sense philosophy against the problem of secondary qualities, which claims that our perceptions are only experiences in our brains, not of the world.

Author : Georges Dicker
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195381467
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berkeley's Idealism written by Georges Dicker and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the tools of contemporary analytic philosophy, Georges Dicker here examines both the destructive and the constructive sides of Berkeley's thought, against the background of the mainstream views that he rejected.

Author : John Locke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Essay Concerning Human Understanding written by John Locke and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: