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Perception (Hardcover)
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Perception (Hardcover)
Series: Problems of Philosophy
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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 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
discusses the empiricist conception of sense-contents and examines
the traditional arguments for sense-data and objections to the
theory, particularly Wittgenstein's attack on privacy and the
current physicalist approaches to perception. He constructs and
defends a strengthened version of the causal argument for
sense-data, and argues that appeals to intentionality and
adverbialism are unsuccessful. He also shows that representative
realism and, more particularly, phenomenalism can circumvent most
of the traditional objections to the theory, and contends that we
should return to the theory sense-data in order to understand
perception. The author has also written "Essays on Berkeley" and
"Matter and Sense".
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