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Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception (Hardcover)
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Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception (Hardcover)
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The seventeenth century witnesses the demise of two core doctrines
in the theory of perception: naive 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 Regis alongside their better-known countrymen
Rene Descartes and Nicolas Malebranche.
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