John Foster addresses the question: what is it to perceive a physical object? He rejects the view that we perceive such objects directly, and argues for a new version of the traditional empiricist account, which locates the immediate objects of perception in the mind. But this account seems to imply that we do not perceive physical objects at all. Foster offers a surprising solution, which involves embracing an idealist view of the physical world.
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John Foster was tutorial Fellow of Brasenose College 1966-2005 and an Emeritus Fellow from 2005-2009. His research interests have been in the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, mind, and language. He was the author of The Case for Idealism (1982), Ayer (1985), and The Immaterial Self (1991).
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- Harvard Review of Philosophy, Volume XII: Spring 2004 by Benjamin Stoll on page 4, page 18, and page 26
- Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance by Robert N. Watson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Expressing the World: Skepticism, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger by Anthony Rudd on page 29, and Back Matter
- Perceptual Experience by Tamar Szabo Gendler in Front Matter, and page 409
- Philosophy of Mind and Cognition: An Introduction by David Braddon-Mitchell on page 153, and Back Matter
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