Perception and the physical world.
This book contends that there are insuperable difficulties for the representative and phenomenalist theories. It re-examines all the traditional objections to a direct realist theory, and attempts to show that they can e overcome.
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| Language: | English |
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London,
Routledge and Paul
[1963]
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| Series: | International library of philosophy and scientific method.
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Table of Contents:
- Arguments to prove the sensible qualities subjective
- What are the immediate objects of awareness in perception?
- Refutation of the representative theory of perception
- Some features of sense-impressions
- Refutation of phenomenalism
- An analysis of sensory illusion
- The argument from verification
- The nature of perception
- Consequences of our account of the nature of perception
- The argument from causation
- The argument from science
- Direct realism without scientific phenomenalism
- Problems about the secondary qualities
- Can physical objects have nothing but the primary qualities?