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Act Object Analysis
advanced perception theory research
Adverbial Theory
Anti-private Language Argument
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Brain State
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Causal Argument
Chapter III
datum
Disjunctive Analysis
Disjunctive Theory
empiricist theories
epistemology of perception
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Error Theory
illusion argument
intentional
Intentional Objects
Intentionally Inexistent
Long Haired Woman
Manifest Image
Mind Independent Physical World
naive
Naive Realism
Nonveridical Perceptions
objects
Phenomenal Colour
Phenomenal Principle
philosophy of mind
physicalist perspectives
Primary Qualities
qualities
realism
secondary
Secondary Qualities
sense
Sense Datum Theorist
Speckled Hen
theory
Time Lag Argument
Transcendental World
Unsensed Sensibilia
Wittgenstein privacy critique
Product details
- ISBN 9780415249935
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jan 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
