Perception
New York: Routledge (1994)
| Abstract | Questions about perception remain some of the most difficult and insoluble in both epistemology and the philosophy of mind. Perception provides a highly accessible introduction to the area, exploring the philosophical importance of those questions by re-examining the sense-datum theory, once the most popular theory of perception. Howard Robinson surveys the history of arguments for and against the sense-datum theory, from Descartes to Husserl. Robinson contends that the objections to the theory, particularly Wittgenstein's attack on privacy and those of the physicalists, have been unsuccessful. He argues for returning to the theory in order to understand perception. In doing so, he seeks to overturn a consensus that has dominated the philosophy of perception for nearly half a century | |||||||||
| Keywords | Empiricism Epistemology Mind Perception Realism Sense Data | |||||||||
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| Call number | B828.45.R62 1994 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0415033640 9780415033640 | |||||||||
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