Perceptual acquaintance : from Descartes to Reid / / John W. Yolton

• Autore: Yolton John W
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1984
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 121/.3
• Soggetto topico: Perception (Philosophy) - History; Knowledge, Theory of - History; Philosophy, Modern
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter I. Perceptual Cognition of Body in Descartes; Chapter II. Malebranche on Perception and Knowledge; Chapter III. Direct Presence among the Cartesians; Chapter IV. British Presence; Chapter V. Locke and Malebranche: Two Concepts of Idea; Chapter VI. Ideas in Logic and Psychology; Chapter VII. Perceptual Optics; Chapter VIII. Hume on Single and Double Existence; Chapter IX. Hume on Imagination: A Magical Faculty of the Soul; Chapter X. Hume's Ideas; Chapter XI. Sense and Meaning; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Perceptual Acquaintance was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Philosophers, wrote Thomas Reid in 1785, ""all suppose that we perceive not external objects immediately, and that the immediate objects of perception are only certain shadows of the external objects."" To Reid, a founding father of the common-sense school of philosophy, John Locke's ""way of ideas"" threatened to supplant, in human knowledge, the world
• Titolo autorizzato: Perceptual acquaintance
• ISBN: 0-8166-5560-X; 0-8166-1163-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815322803321
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