Descartes, malebranche, and the crisis of perception / Walter Ott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ott, Walter R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perception (Philosophy)--History--17th century.

Perception (Philosophy).

Philosophy, French--17th century.

Philosophy, French.

Color vision.

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Descartes, René.

Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715.

Malebranche, Nicolas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 240 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Seventeenth-century French philosophers grappled with a lasting problem: how do we use qualities such as color, feel, and sound to locate objects in the world, even though these qualities are not real? Walter Ott explores the debate about perceptual experience, covering Descartes and Malebranche alongside their less known contemporaries.

Contents:

The crisis of perception

The early Descartes

The Meditations

The Dioptrique

Later Descartes

The Cartesians

Malebranche on sensation

Early Malebranche

Middle Malebranche

Later Malebranche

Appendix: the development of the theory of natural judgment.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 10, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-250945-4

0-19-183959-0

0-19-250944-6