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The Eye and the Mind - Reflections on Perception and the Problem of Knowledge (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1994)
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The Eye and the Mind - Reflections on Perception and the Problem of Knowledge (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1994)
Series: Philosophical Studies Series, 58
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This book is a discussion of some of the major philosophical
problems centering around the topic of sense perception and the
foundations of human knowledge. It begins with a characterization
of our common sense understanding of the role of the senses in the
acquisition of belief, and it argues that scientific accounts of
the processes of perception undermine salient parts of this
understanding. The naive point of view of direct realism cannot be
sustained in the light of a scientifically instructed understanding
of perception. This critique of direct realism points to the
correctness of the representative theory of perception
characteristic of such early modem philosophers as Descartes and
Locke, and it also endorses the subjective tum that they defended.
It argues that these positions do not require introducing sense
data into the picture, and thus it avoids the intractable problems
that the sense datum philosophy introduces. In addition, several
versions of cognitive accounts of sense perception are criticized
with the result that it is unnecessary to characterize sensory
processes in intentional terms. The book then turns to a leading
question introduced into modem philosophy by Descartes and Locke,
the question of the accuracy of the information delivered by the
senses to our faculty of belief. In particular, how accurate are
our representations of the secondary qualities? The case of color
is considered in detail.
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