Form Without Matter - Empedocles and Aristotle on Color Perception

Zusatztext ...thought-provoking as well as refreshing... Informationen zum Autor Mark Eli Kalderon is a Professor of Philosophy at University College London. He received his PhD from Princeton in 1995. His most recent work concerns color and the nature of perception. He is the author of Moral Fictionalism (OUP, 2005), and editor of Fictionalism in Metaphysics (OUP, 2005). Klappentext Mark Eli Kalderon presents an original study of perception, taking as its starting point a puzzle in Empedocles' theory of vision: if perception is a mode of material assimilation, how can we perceive colors at a distance? Kalderon argues that the theory of perception offered by Aristotle in answer to the puzzle is both attractive and defensible. Zusammenfassung Mark Eli Kalderon presents an original study of perception, taking as its starting point a puzzle in Empedocles' theory of vision: if perception is a mode of material assimilation, how can we perceive colors at a distance? Kalderon argues that the theory of perception offered by Aristotle in answer to the puzzle is both attractive and defensible. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements 1: Empedocles 2: Perception at a Distance 3: Transparency 4: Color 5: Light and Dark 6: The Generation of the Hues 7: The Eye 8: Two Transitions to Actuality 9: Form Without Matter Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Mark Eli Kalderon, Mark Eli (University College London) Kalderon, Kalderon Mark Eli
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.01.2015
• EAN: 9780198717904
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871790-4
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Perception, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge