Primary and Secondary Qualities
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-955615-1 (ISBN)
Fourteen newly commissioned essays trace the historical development of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, which lies at the intersection of issues in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of perception. Primary and Secondary Qualities focuses on the age of the Scientific Revolution, the locus classicus of the distinction, but begins with chapters on ancient Greek and Scholastic accounts of qualities in an effort to identify its origins. The remainder of the volume is devoted to philosophical reflections on qualities from the seventeenth century to the present day. Virtually every major figure is represented from Gassendi to Kant, and special attention is paid to Locke, Descartes, and Hume. The essays collected here cover a wide range of topics, including the foundation for the distinction, the question of whether or not it is metaphysical or merely epistemic, the status of secondary qualities, the nature of sensory representation, the relation between philosophy and science, the status of dispositions, and the semantics of sensible-quality terms.
Lawrence Nolan is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of numerous essays in early modern philosophy and is currently editing the Cambridge Descartes Lexicon.
Introduction ; 1. The Distinction between Primary and Secondary Qualities in Ancient Atomism ; 2. Scholastic Qualities, Primary and Secondary ; 3. Gassendi and the 17th-Century Atomists on Primary and Secondary Qualities ; 4. Descartes on 'What We Call Colour' ; 5. Sensible Qualities and Material Bodies in Descartes and Boyle ; 6. Primary and Secondary Qualities in Locke's Essay ; 7. Locke's Distinction between Primary Primary Qualities and Secondary Primary Qualities ; 8. Primary and Secondary Qualities in the Phenomenalist Theory of Leibniz ; 9. Qualities and Simple Ideas: Hume and his Debt to Berkeley ; 10. Hume and the Sensible Qualities ; 11. Reid on the Real Foundation of the Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction ; 12. Kant and Helmholtz on Primary and Secondary Qualities ; 13. Are Colors Secondary Qualities? ; 14. Color Eliminativism ; Bibliography
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.4.2011 |
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Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 162 x 240 mm |
Gewicht | 780 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-955615-6 / 0199556156 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-955615-1 / 9780199556151 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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