Perception And The Physical World
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Author | : David Malet Armstrong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : PHILOSOPHY |
ISBN | : 9781003405405 |
First published in 1961, Perception and the Physical World contends that there are insuperable difficulties for the Representative and Phenomenalist theories. Unreflective common sense thinks of sense-perception as a direct grasping of the nature of the physical world. But when we are confronted with facts about sensory illusion, about the physical and physiological causes of perception, and with modern scientific views of the real nature of matter, it is hard to maintain such a Direct Realist' theory of perception. We tend to substitute a Copy or Representative theory which puts sense-impressions between ourselves and physical reality. Some philosophers overwhelmed by the difficulties of the Copy theory, retreat into Phenomenalism, which identifies the physical world with our sense-impressions. The author re-examines all the traditional objections to a Direct Realist theory and tries to show that they can be overcome. This book will be of interest to students of philosophy.
Author | : David Malet Armstrong |
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Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : D. M. ARMSTRONG |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
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ISBN | : 9781032521367 |
Author | : D M Armstrong |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2023-07-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 100090086X |
First published in 1961, Perception and the Physical World contends that there are insuperable difficulties for the Representative and Phenomenalist theories. Unreflective common sense thinks of sense-perception as a direct grasping of the nature of the physical world. But when we are confronted with facts about sensory illusion, about the physical and physiological causes of perception, and with modern scientific views of the real nature of matter, it is hard to maintain such a ‘Direct Realist’ theory of perception. We tend to substitute a Copy or Representative theory which puts sense-impressions between ourselves and physical reality. Some philosophers overwhelmed by the difficulties of the Copy theory, retreat into Phenomenalism, which identifies the physical world with our sense-impressions. The author re-examines all the traditional objections to a Direct Realist theory and tries to show that they can be overcome. This book will be of interest to students of philosophy.
Author | : Dieter Heyer |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2002-05-22 |
Genre | : Medical |
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Perception is a subject of great current interest and one that is is likely to escalate over coming years. The focus of this book is on conceptual and philosophical issues of perception, including the classic notion of unconscious inferences in perception. The book consists of contributions from a group of international researchers who spent a year together as distinguished fellows at the German Centre for Advanced Study.
Author | : Shane Feaver |
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Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Conduct of life |
ISBN | : 9780473242442 |
Author | : Jacques Louis Lions |
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Release | : 1961 |
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Author | : Adam Pautz |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2021-05-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317676874 |
A thorough, accessible introduction to philosophy of perception unlike competitors which are higher level or edited collections Lots of beneficial student features: chapter summaries, annotated further reading, glossary Perception is one of the most important enduring problems in philosophy, with lots of renewed interest as a result of advances in cognitive science and psychology Fascinating examples such as hallucination, illusion, blindsight, the reliability of introspection Excellent complement to our strong backllist in philosophy of mind
Author | : Howard Robinson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2003-05-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134533020 |
Questions about perception remain some of the most difficult and insoluble in both epistemology and in the philosophy of mind. This controversial but highly accessible introduction to the area explores the philosophical importance of those questions by re-examining what had until recent times been the most popular theory of perception - the sense-datum theory. Howard Robinson surveys the history of the arguments for and against the theory from Descartes to Husserl. He then shows that the objections to the theory, particularly Wittgenstein's attack on privacy and those of the physicalists, have been unsuccessful. He argues that we should return to the theory sense-data in order to understand perception. In doing so he seeks to overturn a consensus that has dominated the philosophy of perception for nearly half a century.
Author | : Walter Ott |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-04-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0192509454 |
The seventeenth century witnesses the demise of two core doctrines in the theory of perception: naïve realism about color, sound, and other sensible qualities and the empirical theory, drawn from Alhacen and Roger Bacon, which underwrote it. This created a problem for seventeenth century philosophers: how is that we use qualities such as color, feel, and sound to locate objects in the world, even though these qualities are not real? Ejecting such sensible qualities from the mind-independent world at once makes for a cleaner ontology, since bodies can now be understood in purely geometrical terms, and spawns a variety of fascinating complications for the philosophy of perception. If sensible qualities are not part of the mind-independent world, just what are they, and what role, if any, do they play in our cognitive economy? We seemingly have to use color to visually experience objects. Do we do so by inferring size, shape, and motion from color? Or is it a purely automatic operation, accomplished by divine decree? This volume traces the debate over perceptual experience in early modern France, covering such figures as Antoine Arnauld, Robert Desgabets, and Pierre-Sylvain Régis alongside their better-known countrymen René Descartes and Nicolas Malebranche.