Primary and secondary qualities : the historical and ongoing debate /

14 original essays trace the historical development of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, a key topic in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of perception.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nolan, Lawrence
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • The distinction between primary and secondary qualities in ancient Greek philosophy / Mi-Kyoung Lee
  • Scholastic qualities, primary and secondary / Robert Pasnau
  • Gassendi and the seventeenth-century atomists on primary and secondary qualities / Antonia LoLordo
  • Descartes on "What we call color" / Lawrence Nolan
  • Sensible qualities and material bodies in Descartes and Boyle / Lisa Downing
  • Primary and secondary qualities in Locke's 'Essay' / Michael Ayers
  • Locke's distinction between primary primary qualities and secondary primary qualities / Edwin McCann
  • Primary and secondary qualities in the phenomenalist theory of Leibniz / Martha Brandt Bolton
  • Qualities and simple ideas : Hume and his debt to Berkeley / Alan Nelson and David Landy
  • Hume and the sensible qualities / Kenneth P. Winkler
  • Reid on the real foundation of the primary-secondary quality distinction / James Van Cleve
  • Kant and Helmholtz on primary and secondary qualities / Gary Hatfield
  • Are colors secondary qualities? / Alex Byme and David R. Hilbert
  • Colour eliminativism / Barry Maund.