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Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception by Walter R Ott is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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The seventeenth century witnesses the demise of two core doctrines in the theory of perception: naïve realism about color, sound, and other sensible qualities and the empirical theory, drawn from Alhacen and Roger Bacon, which underwrote it. This created a problem for seventeenth century philosophers: how is that we use qualities such as color, feel, and sound to locate objects in the world, even though these qualities are not real? Ejecting such sensible qualities from the mind-independent worl
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Walter R Ott
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192509444
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Philosophy, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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