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Molyneux's Problem - Three Centuries of Discussion on the Perception of Forms (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
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Molyneux's Problem - Three Centuries of Discussion on the Perception of Forms (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, 147
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Suppose that a congenitally blind person has learned to distinguish
and name a sphere and a cube by touch alone. Then imagine that this
person suddenly recovers the faculty of sight. Will he be able to
distinguish both objects by sight and to say which is the sphere
and which the cube? This was the question which the Irish
politician and scientist William Molyneux posed in 1688 to John
Locke. Molyneux's question has intrigued a wide variety of
intellectuals for three centuries. Those who have attempted to
solve it include Berkeley, Reid, Leibniz, Voltaire, La Mettrie,
Condillac, Diderot, M ller, Helmholtz, William James and Gareth
Evans. This book is the first comprehensive survey of the history
of the discussion about Molyneux's problem. It will be of interest
to historians of both philosophy and psychology.
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