Description: Primary and Secondary Qualities : The Historical and Ongoing Debate, Hardcover by Nolan, Lawrence (EDT), ISBN 0199556156, ISBN-13 9780199556151, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Fourteen newly commissioned essays trace the historical development of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, which lies at the intersection of issues in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of perception. Primary and Secondary Qualities focuses on the age of the Scientific Revolution, the locus classicus of the distinction, but begins with chapters on ancient Greek and Scholastic accounts of qualities in an effort to identify its origins. The remainder of the volume is devoted to philosophical reflections on qualities from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Virtually every major figure is represented from Gassendi to Kant, and special attention is paid to Locke, Descartes, and Hume. The essays collected here cover a wide range of topics, including the foundation for the distinction, the question of whether or not it is metaphysical or merely epistemic, the status of secondary qualities, the nature of sensory representation, the relation between philosophy and science, the status of dispositions, and the semantics of sensible-quality terms.
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Book Title: Primary and Secondary Qualities : The Historical and Ongoing Deba
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Name: Primary and Secondary Qualities : the Historical and Ongoing Debate
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Epistemology, General, Metaphysics, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 27.5 Oz
Author: Lawrence Nolan
Subject Area: Philosophy, Psychology
Item Length: 9.4 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
