Perception
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Problems of Philosophy
ISBN-10
0415033640
ISBN-13
9780415033640
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 8th, 1994
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
490 grams
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This book is not only an introduction to the debate on perception, by arguing against the current consensus and in favour of a strengthened version of the sense-datum theory, Robinson also makes a provocative contribution to that debate.
Questions about perception remain some of the most difficult and insoluble in both epistemology and in the philosophy of mind. This controversial but highly accessible introduction to the area explores the philosophical importance of those questions by re-examining what had until recent times been the most popular theory of perception - the sense-datum theory. Howard Robinson surveys the history of the arguments for and against the theory from Descartes to Husserl. He then shows that the objections to the theory, particularly Wittgenstein''s attack on privacy and those of the physicalists, have been unsuccessful. He argues that we should return to the theory sense-data in order to understand perception. In doing so he seeks to overturn a consensus that has dominated the philosophy of perception for nearly half a century.
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