Molyneux's Question

Name: Molyneux's Question
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Vision, Touch and the Philosophy of Perception

Автор: Michael J. Morgan

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Издател: Cambridge University Press

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If a man born blind were to gain his sight in later life would he be able to identify the objects he...

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Автор

Michael J. Morgan

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2009

страници

228

EAN

9780521100670

ISBN

0521100674

Enbook ID

02021401

Издател

Cambridge University Press

Теглоt

300

Размери

140 x 216 x 13

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If a man born blind were to gain his sight in later life would he be able to identify the objects he saw around him? Would he recognise a cube and a globe on the basis of his earlier tactile experiences alone? This was William Molyneux's famous question to John Locke and it was much discussed by English and French empiricists in the eighteenth century as part of the controversy over innatism and abstract ideas. Dr Morgan examines the whole history of this debate: Locke's own (negative) answer to the question, the contributions of Berkeley, Condillac, Diderot and Voltaire and the factual accounts of early cataract operations and modern laboratory studies. He shows how this debate is involved in the development and eventual separation of philosophy and experimental psychology after the eighteenth century and considers why the original question is effectively still unanswered. This is one problem-area with its intricate cluster of connected conceptual and technical difficulties which suggests the need for some reunion or at least collaboration between the two subjects.

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