This book addresses one of the fundamental topics in philosophy: the relation between appearance and reality. John Yolton draws on a rich combination of historical and contemporary material, ranging from Locke, Berkeley and Hume to Churchland and McDowell, to examine this central philosophical preoccupation, which he presents in terms of distinctions between phenomena and causes, causes and meaning, and persons and man. His important study will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the history of philosophy and in contemporary philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysics.
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This book addresses one of the fundamental topics in philosophy: the relation between appearance and reality. John Yolton draws on a rich combination of historical and contemporary material, ranging from Locke, Berkeley and Hume to Churchland and McDowell, to examine this central philosophical preoccupation, which he presents in terms of distinctions between phenomena and causes, causes and meaning, and persons and man. His important study will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the history of philosophy and in contemporary philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysics.
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Traditionally, especially within the period of Modern Philosophy (e.g., from Descartes to Kant), when philosophers turned their attention to perception and our knowledge of the external world, a standard set of issues, problems, principles and concepts were invoked, assumed and occasionally modified. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coexisting qualities, sense qualia, corpuscular structure, neural analogs, nonphysical features, cognitive presence, indirect realism, conscious phenomena, property dualism, brain events, representative theory, neural action, neural events, ordinary view, mental causation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, Dialogue Three, Clarendon Press, Subjects of Experience, Perceptual Acquaintance, The Guardian, Dialogue One, Locke's Essay, New Beginnings, Robert Pasnau, Dialogue Two, Oxford University Press, Principles Section, The New Hume, Theories of Cognition New!
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Traditionally, especially within the period of Modern Philosophy (e.g., from Descartes to Kant), when philosophers turned their attention to perception and our knowledge of the external world, a standard set of issues, problems, principles and concepts were invoked, assumed and occasionally modified. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coexisting qualities, sense qualia, corpuscular structure, neural analogs, nonphysical features, cognitive presence, indirect realism, conscious phenomena, property dualism, brain events, representative theory, neural action, neural events, ordinary view, mental causation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, Dialogue Three, Clarendon Press, Subjects of Experience, Perceptual Acquaintance, The Guardian, Dialogue One, Locke's Essay, New Beginnings, Robert Pasnau, Dialogue Two, Oxford University Press, Principles Section, The New Hume, Theories of Cognition New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Subjects of Experience (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) by E. J. Lowe on 5 pages
- Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages by Robert Pasnau on 4 pages
- The Natural History of Religion by David Hume on page 117, page 126, and page 127
- A Treatise of Human Nature (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay by Francis Herbert Bradley in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
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- Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning (Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory) by Professor Edward Schiappa PhD in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Kenneth P. Winkler in Back Matter
- The Two Intellectual Worlds of John Locke: Man, Person, and Spirits in the "Essay" by John W. Yolton in Back Matter
- Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. Volume 33 by Catherine E. Ingrassia on page 65
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