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Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Representation

Author : Raffaella De Rosa
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191610062
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Representation written by Raffaella De Rosa and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much has been written on Descartes' theory of mind and ideas, no systematic study of his theory of sensory representation and misrepresentation is currently available in the literature. Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Misrepresentation is an ambitious attempt to fill this gap. It argues against the established view that Cartesian sensations are mere qualia by defending the view that they are representational; it offers a descriptivist-causal account of their representationality that is critical of, and differs from, all other extant accounts (such as, for example, causal, teleofunctional and purely internalist accounts); and it has the advantage of providing an adequate solution to the problem of sensory misrepresentation within Descartes' internalist theory of ideas. In sum, the book offers a novel account of the representationality of Cartesian sensations; provides a panoramic overview, and critical assessment, of the scholarly literature on this issue; and places Descartes' theory of sensation in the central position it deserves among the philosophical and scientific investigations of the workings of the human mind.

Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Representation

Author : Raffaella De Rosa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191722455
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Representation written by Raffaella De Rosa and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a novel account of the representationality of Cartesian sensations, this text places Descartes' theory of sensation in the central position it deserves among the philosophical and scientific investigations of the workings of the human mind.

Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Representation

Author : Raffaella De Rosa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019957037X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Representation written by Raffaella De Rosa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raffaella De Rosa discusses the theory of sensory perception, especially color perception, offered by René Descartes. She offers a detailed overview of the recent literature on the topic and provides a new reading of Descartes' theory; she also raises questions of great interest in the contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science.

On the Genealogy of Color

Author : Zed Adams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317401905
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book On the Genealogy of Color written by Zed Adams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In On the Genealogy of Color, Zed Adams argues for a historicized approach to conceptual analysis, by exploring the relevance of the history of color science for contemporary philosophical debates about color realism. Adams contends that two prominent positions in these debates, Cartesian anti-realism and Oxford realism, are both predicated on the assumption that the concept of color is ahistorical and unrevisable. Adams takes issue with this premise by offering a philosophical genealogy of the concept of color. This book makes a significant contribution to recent debates on philosophical methodology by demonstrating the efficacy of using the genealogical method to explore philosophical concepts, and will appeal to philosophers of perception, philosophers of mind, and metaphysicians.

Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception

Author : Walter R. Ott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198791712
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception by : Walter R. Ott

Download or read book Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception written by Walter R. Ott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth century witnesses the demise of two core doctrines in the theory of perception: naive realism about color, sound, and other sensible qualities and the empirical theory, drawn from Alhacen and Roger Bacon, which underwrote it. This created a problem for seventeenth century philosophers: how is that we use qualities such as color, feel, and sound to locate objects in the world, even though these qualities are not real? Ejecting such sensible qualities from the mind-independent world at once makes for a cleaner ontology, since bodies can now be understood in purely geometrical terms, and spawns a variety of fascinating complications for the philosophy of perception. If sensible qualities are not part of the mind-independent world, just what are they, and what role, if any, do they play in our cognitive economy? We seemingly have to use color to visually experience objects. Do we do so by inferring size, shape, and motion from color? Or is it a purely automatic operation, accomplished by divine decree? This volume traces the debate over perceptual experience in early modern France, covering such figures as Antoine Arnauld, Robert Desgabets, and Pierre-Sylvain Regis alongside their better-known countrymen Rene Descartes and Nicolas Malebranche.

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume XI

Author : Donald Rutherford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192884743
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume XI written by Donald Rutherford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. It also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating early modern thought. The articles in OSEMP will be of importance to specialists within the discipline, but the editors also intend that they should appeal to a larger audience of philosophers, intellectual historians, and others who are interested in the development of modern thought.

Conflicting Values of Inquiry

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004282556
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Conflicting Values of Inquiry written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflicting Values of Inquiry explores how certain non-epistemic values had been turned into epistemic ones, how they had an effect on epistemic content, and how they became ideologies of knowledge playing various roles in inquiry and application throughout early modern Europe.

Descartes and Cartesianism

Author : Stephen Gaukroger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191085197
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Descartes and Cartesianism written by Stephen Gaukroger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of original essays dealing with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian natural science and the theory of perception, agency, mentality, divinity, and the passions. It focuses in particular on Desmond Clarke's important contributions to these aspects of Descartes's writings. Stephen Gaukroger and Catherine Wilson split the volume into four distinct parts; Cartesian Science, Mind and Perception, Actions and Passions, and Cartesian Woman. The contributors are internationally known and respected scholars of 17th century philosophy writing on a number of their favourite Cartesian topics.

Descartes' Meditations

Author : Karen Detlefsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521111609
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Descartes' Meditations written by Karen Detlefsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides new insights into understanding Descartes' philosophy of mind, especially the role and significance of the senses and emotions.

Emotional Minds

Author : Sabrina Ebbersmeyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110260921
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Emotional Minds written by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thoroughly contemporary question of the relationship between emotion and reason was debated with such complexity by the philosophers of the 17th century that their concepts remain a source of inspiration for today’s research about the emotionality of the mind. The analyses of the works of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and many other thinkers collected in this volume offer new insights into the diversity and significance of philosophical reflections about emotions during the early modern era. A focus is placed on affective components in learning processes and the boundaries between emotions and reason.

Material Falsity and Error in Descartes' Meditations

Author : Cecilia Wee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134270941
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Material Falsity and Error in Descartes' Meditations written by Cecilia Wee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting an independent reading on issues of interest, such as Descartes' view on error, truth and falsehood, this book makes important contributions to topics that have been the focus of recent scholarship, such as Descartes' ethics and theodicy.

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy

Author : Daniel Garber
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Early Modern
ISBN 13 : 0198829299
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy written by Daniel Garber and published by Oxford Studies in Early Modern. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. It also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating early modern thought. The articles in OSEMP will be of importance to specialists within the discipline, but the editors also intend that they should appeal to a larger audience of philosophers, intellectual historians, and others who are interested in the development of modern thought.

A Companion to Locke

Author : Matthew Stuart
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118328752
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Locke written by Matthew Stuart and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 28 original essays examines the diverse scopeof John Locke’s contributions as a celebrated philosopher,empiricist, and father of modern political theory. Explores the impact of Locke’s thought and writing acrossa range of fields including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophyof science, political theory, education, religion, andeconomics Delves into the most important Lockean topics, such as innateideas, perception, natural kinds, free will, natural rights,religious toleration, and political liberalism Identifies the political, philosophical, and religious contextsin which Locke’s views developed, with perspectives fromtoday’s leading philosophers and scholars Offers an unprecedented reference of Locke’scontributions and his continued influence

Pleasure

Author : Lisa Shapiro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190225106
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Pleasure written by Lisa Shapiro and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many, the word 'pleasure' conjures associations with hedonism, indulgence, and escape from the life of the mind. However little we talk about it, though, pleasure also plays an integral role in cognitive life, in both our sensory perception of the world and our intellectual understanding. This previously important but now neglected philosophical understanding of pleasure is the focus of the essays in this volume, which challenges received views that pleasure is principally motivating of action, unanalyzable, and caused, rather than responsive to reason. Like other books in the Oxford Philosophical Concepts series, it traces the development of the focal idea from ancient times through the 20th century. The essays highlight points of departure for new lines of inquiry rather than attempting to provide a full picture of how the idea of pleasure has been explored in philosophy. The volume begins by showing how Plato, Aristotle, early Islamic philosophers, and philosophers in the Medieval Latin tradition, such as Aquinas, honed in on the challenge of unifying the variety of pleasures so that they fall under one concept. In the early modern period, philosophers shifted from understanding the logic of pleasure to treating pleasure as a mental state. As the studies of Malebranche, Berkeley and Kant show, the central problem becomes understanding the relation of pleasure to other sensory experiences, and the role of pleasure in human cognition and knowledge. Short interdisciplinary reflections interspersed between essays focus on art of 16th and 17th century textbooks and the difficult music of composers like Bach, which demonstrate translation of these concerns to cultural production in the period. As the essay on Mill shows, the 19th century development of scientific psychology narrowed the definition of pleasure, and so its philosophical focus. Contemporary accounts of pleasure, however, in both philosophy and psychology, are now recognizing the limitations of this narrow focus, and are once again recognizing the complexity of pleasure and its role in human life.

Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy

Author : Martin Lenz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400762410
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy written by Martin Lenz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normativity has long been conceived as more properly pertaining to the domain of thought than to the domain of nature. This conception goes back to Kant and still figures prominently in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of mind and ethics. By offering a collection of new essays by leading scholars in early modern philosophy and specialists in contemporary philosophy, this volume goes beyond the point where nature and normativity came apart, and challenges the well-established opposition between these all too neatly separated realms. It examines how the mind’s embeddedness in nature can be conceived as a starting point for uncovering the links between naturally and conventionally determined standards governing an agent’s epistemic and moral engagement with the world. The original essays are grouped in two parts. The first part focuses on specific aspects of theories of perception, thought formation and judgment. It gestures towards an account of normativity that regards linguistic conventions and natural constraints as jointly setting the scene for the mind’s ability to conceptualise its experiences. The second part of the book asks what the norms of desirable epistemic and moral practices are. Key to this approach is an examination of human beings as parts of nature, who act as natural causes and are determined by their sensibilities and sentiments. Each part concludes with a chapter that integrates features of the historical debate into the contemporary context.

The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190873426
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley is a compendious examination of a vast array of topics in the philosophy of George Berkeley (1685-1753), Anglican Bishop of Cloyne, the famous idealist and most illustrious Irish philosopher. Berkeley is best known for his denial of the existence of material substance and his insistence that the only things that exist in the universe are minds (including God) and their ideas; however, Berkeley was a polymath who contributed to a variety of different disciplines, not well distinguished from philosophy in the eighteenth century, including the theory and psychology of vision, the nature and functioning of language, the debate over infinitesimals in mathematics, political philosophy, economics, chemistry (including his favoured panacea, tar-water), and theology. This volume includes contributions from thirty-four expert commentators on Berkeley's philosophy, some of whom provide a state-of-the-art account of his philosophical achievements, and some of whom place his philosophy in historical context by comparing and contrasting it with the views of his contemporaries (including Mandeville, Collier, and Edwards), as well as with philosophers who preceded him (such as Descartes, Locke, Malebranche, and Leibniz) and others who succeeded him (such as Hume, Reid, Kant, and Shepherd).

Emotion and Cognitive Life in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

Author : Martin Pickavé
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199579911
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Emotion and Cognitive Life in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy written by Martin Pickavé and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores emotion in medieval and early modern thought, and opens a contemporary debate on the way emotions figure in our cognitive lives. Thirteen original essays explore the key themes of emotion within the mind; the intentionality of emotions; emotions and action; and the role of emotion in self-understanding and social situations.