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Mark Eli Kalderon presents an original study of perception, taking as its starting point a puzzle in Empedocles' theory of vision: if perception is a mode of material assimilation, how can we perceive colours at a distance? Kalderon argues that the theory of perception offered by Aristotle in a...

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Main Author: Kalderon, Mark Eli, 1964- (Author)
Corporate Author: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Aristotle.
Empedocles.
Aristotle
Empedocles
Perception (Philosophy)
Historiography > Philosophy.
Color (Philosophy)
Color vision.
Vision.
Color Perception
Vision, Ocular
Perception (Philosophie)
Couleur (Philosophie)
Vision des couleurs.
Historiographie > Philosophie.
perception.
sight (sense)
color (perceived attribute)
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Vision
Color vision
Historiography > Philosophy
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Mark Eli Kalderon presents an original study of perception, taking as its starting point a puzzle in Empedocles' theory of vision: if perception is a mode of material assimilation, how can we perceive colours at a distance? Kalderon argues that the theory of perception offered by Aristotle in answer to the puzzle is both attractive and defensible.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 216 pages .)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:019178737X
9780191787379
9780191027734
0191027731
9780191027741
019102774X