Perception: Facts and Theories

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Perception: Facts and Theories
This book is dialectical in form. Part One presents the case against the Realism of common sense. Part Two criticizes both the traditional alternative theories and the arguments against Realism used in Part One. In Part Three, the author tries to clarify and solve what he regards as the main dilemma. He argues that, in dealing with perception, recent linguistic philos-ophy has proved barren. He defends a Reálist theory, but one which rejects Realism regarding the ascription of secondary qualities to bodies external to that of the percipient. The main sources of the traditional philosophical problems concerning perception are phenomenological facts and certain scientific theories. These topics, especially the data and findings of psychologists and physiologists, are explained at greater length than is usual in an introduction to philosophy.
C. W. K. Mundle has been Professor of Philosophy at the University College of North Wales since 1955. He was... Tovább

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Perception: Facts and Theories
This book is dialectical in form. Part One presents the case against the Realism of common sense. Part Two criticizes both the traditional alternative theories and the arguments against Realism used in Part One. In Part Three, the author tries to clarify and solve what he regards as the main dilemma. He argues that, in dealing with perception, recent linguistic philos-ophy has proved barren. He defends a Reálist theory, but one which rejects Realism regarding the ascription of secondary qualities to bodies external to that of the percipient. The main sources of the traditional philosophical problems concerning perception are phenomenological facts and certain scientific theories. These topics, especially the data and findings of psychologists and physiologists, are explained at greater length than is usual in an introduction to philosophy.
C. W. K. Mundle has been Professor of Philosophy at the University College of North Wales since 1955. He was Head of the Philosophy Department of University College, Dundee from 1947, and in 1968 was Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland. His Critique of Linguistic Philosophy was pub-lished by the Clarendon Press in 1970.
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The coloured rectangles on the front cover are to enable readers to verify somé facts about colour vision. If, in good lighting, you keep your gazé fixed on the spot within one of these rectangles, the colour that you see will progressively fade, except, probably, for a marginal fringe of the originál colour. And if, after doing this for 15 or 30 seconds, you stare at the grey paper below,.you should see three new colours. Vissza