Minds, ideas, and objects ; essays on the theory of representation in modern philosophy / edited by Phillip D. Cummins and Guenter Zoeller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

North American Kant Society.

Cummins, Phillip D. (Phillip Daniel), 1934-

Zoeller, Guenter.

Series:

North American Kant Society studies in philosophy ; v. 2.

North American Kant Society studies in philosophy ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Representation (Philosophy).

Philosophy, Modern--20th century--Congresses.

Philosophy, Modern.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 353 pages ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Essays on the theory of representation in modern philosophy.

Place of Publication:

Atascadero, CA : Ridgeview Publishing Co., [1992]

Contents:

Introduction / Phillip D. Cummins

Descartes on material falsity / Jean-Marie Beyssade

Decartes on the awareness of substance / Peter Markie

Sensation, occasionalism, and Descartes' causal principles / Tad M. Schmaltz

Malabranche's argument for ideas and its systematic importance / Thomas Lennon

Intentionality in the Arnauld-Malebranche debate / Steven Nadler

The idea-theoretic basis of Locke's anti-essentialist doctrine of mominal essence / Martha Brandt Bolton

"Ideas" and "objects": Locke on perceiving "things" / IanTipton

Ideas in the mind, qualities in bodies: some distinctive features of Locke's account of primary and secondary qualities / Margaret Atherton

Locke on private language / Geneviève Brykman

Confused versus distinct perception in Liebniz: consciousness, representation, and God's mind / Margaret D. Wilson.

CONTENTS, cont.: Ideas, sentiments, and qualities / Kenneth P. Winkler

The constructivism of Berkeley's New theory of vision / Bertil Belfrage

Berkeley on the relation of ideas to the mind / Charles J. McCracken

Berkeley on the immediate perception of objects / Georges Dicker

Berkeley on private ideas and public objects / Robert McKim

Relative ideas and notions / Daniel Flage

Association, ideas, and images in Hume / Fred Wilson

Space and time and objects in space and time: another aspect of Kant's transcendental idealism / Ralf Meerbote

The argument from geometry, transcendental idealism, and Kant's two worlds / James Van Cleve

Kant on pure intuition / Manfred Baum

The subject as appearance and as thing it self in the Critique of pure reason: reflections in the light of the role of imagination in apprehension / Richard E. Aquila

Kant on embodiment / Hoke Robinson

The Austrian way of ideas: contents and objects of presentations in the Brentano School / Guenter Zoeller.

Notes:

All papers published were the outgrowth of a conference held in April 1989 with the theme: "Ideas: sensory experience, thought, knowledge and their objects in 17th and 18th century philosophy."

ISBN:

0924922133

092492263X

OCLC:

30017110