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Perception (Problems of Philosophy)

By Howard Robinson

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1994
ISBN
0415033640, 9780415033640
LCC
B828.45 .R62 1994
Open Library ID
OL1436884M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
779 kB (797256 bytes)
Pages
272\273
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00

Description

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.

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