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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yolton, John W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perception (Philosophy)--History.

Perception (Philosophy).

Knowledge, Theory of--History.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1984.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5560-X

0-8166-1163-7

OCLC:

182732675