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.
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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.