Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception (PDF)
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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...
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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.
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.
Autoren-Porträt von Walter Ott
Walter Ott is the author of Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy (Oxford University Press), Locke's Philosophy of Language (Cambridge University Press), and numerous journal articles. He taught at Colby College, East Tennessee State University, and Virginia Tech before joining the faculty of the University of Virginia.
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- Autor: Walter Ott
- 2017, 224 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0192509446
- ISBN-13: 9780192509444
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.04.2017
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