The enigma of perception

The enigma of perception / D.L.C. Maclachlan.

How do we acquire knowledge through a sensory input from our environment? In The Enigma of Perception, D.L.C. Maclachlan revives the traditional causal representative theory of perception which dominated philosophical thinking for hundreds of years by revealing the important element of truth the the...

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Main Author: Maclachlan, D. L. C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montréal [Qué.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2013
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 60.
Subjects:
Perception (Philosophy)
perception.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part one. 1 The traditional theory demolished
  • 2 The traditional theory comes back to life
  • 3 Primary and secondary qualities
  • 4 Primary qualities and the physical world
  • 5 The private language argument
  • 6 Other minds
  • Part two. 7 The origin of empirical belief
  • 8 The search for the missing link
  • 9 The nature of sense experience
  • 10 The representation of reality
  • 11 The presupposition of reality
  • 12 The detailed knowledge of the world
  • 13 The perception of the future
  • 14 Additional ideas.

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