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Zusatztext This is an original, stimulating, and illuminating study of the problem of perception in Descartes and later French Cartesians. It is a valuable if controversialin the good sensecontribution to continuing debates over the role of ideas and the nature of "representation" in early modern philosophy of mind. Informationen zum Autor Walter Ott is the author of Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy (Oxford University Press), Locke's Philosophy of Language (Cambridge University Press), and numerous journal articles. He taught at Colby College, East Tennessee State University, and Virginia Tech before joining the faculty of the University of Virginia. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: The crisis of perception 2: The early Descartes 3: The Meditations 4: The Dioptrique 5: Later Descartes 6: The Cartesians 7: Malebranche on sensation 8: Early Malebranche 9: Middle Malebranche 10: Later Malebranche 11: Conclusion Appendix: The development of the theory of natural judgement
