Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Representation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Representation write by Raffaella De Rosa. This book was released on 2010-01-07. Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Representation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Representation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Representation write by Raffaella De Rosa. This book was released on 2010. Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Representation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Pleasure
Pleasure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pleasure write by Lisa Shapiro. This book was released on 2018-06-05. Pleasure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
On the Genealogy of Color
On the Genealogy of Color - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Genealogy of Color write by Zed Adams. This book was released on 2015-10-16. On the Genealogy of Color available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception write by Walter R. Ott. This book was released on 2017. Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seventeenth-century French philosophers grappled with a lasting problem: how do we use qualities such as color, feel, and sound to locate objects in the world, even though these qualities are not real? Walter Ott explores the debate about perceptual experience, covering Descartes and Malebranche alongside their less known contemporaries.
