Philosophy, Science, and Sense Perception Historical and Critical Studies / by Maurice Mandelbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mandelbaum, Maurice, 1908-1987, comp.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Senses and sensation.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press 2019

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1964]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in 1964. In four essays, Professor Mandelbaum challenges some of the most common assumptions of contemporary epistemology. Through historical analyses and critical argument, he attempts to show that one cannot successfully sever the connections between philosophic and scientific accounts of sense perception. While each essay is independent of the others, and the argument of each must therefore be judged on its own merits, one theme is common to all: that critical realism, as Mandelbaum calls it, is a viable epistemological position, even though some schools of thought hold it in low esteem.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Preface

1. Locke's Realism

2. Newton and Boyle and the Problem of "Transdiction

3. "Of Scepticism with Regard to the Senses

4. Toward a Critical Realism

Appendix

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliography: p. 247-254.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8018-0451-5

1-4214-3169-6

OCLC:

1125188147