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Perception

By Howard Robinson

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1994
ISBN
0415033640, 9780415033640, 9780415249935, 0415249937, 0203164350, 9780203164358, 9780585460406
LCC
B828.45 .R62 1994
Open Library ID
OL1436884M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
845 kB (865549 bytes)
Series
Problems of philosophy
Pages
273\273
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

Questions about perception remain some of the most difficult and insoluble in both epistemology and the philosophy of mind. Perception provides a highly accessible introduction to the area, exploring the philosophical importance of those questions by re-examining the sense-datum theory, once the most popular theory of perception. Howard Robinson surveys the history of arguments for and against the sense-datum theory, from Descartes to Husserl. Robinson contends that the objections to the theory, particularly Wittgenstein's attack on privacy and those of the physicalists, have been unsuccessful. He argues for returning to the theory 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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