The nature of perception /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foster, John, 1941 May 5-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. The reshaping of the issue. 1. The traditional issue ; 2. The two interpretations. 3. SDR and BRT
  • Pt. 2. An examination of strong direct realism. 1. The issue before us ; 2. The causal argument ; 3. Contact and content ; 4. The presentational view ; 5. The internalist view ; 6. Conclusion
  • Pt. 3. The mediating psychological state. 1. Introduction ; 2. The cognitive theory ; 3. The imagist proposal ; 4. The nature of the secondary qualities ; 5. The sense-datum theory ; 6. The adverbilist alternative ; 7. The sense-datum theory revised
  • Pt. 4. The problem of perception. 1. Introduction ; 2. The emergence of the problem ; 3. An argument from analogy ; 4. A deepening of the problem ; 5. Taking stock
  • Pt. 5. The idealist solution. 1. The new option ; 2. An argument for idealism ; 3. The unfinished story
  • Bibliography
  • Index.