Primary and secondary qualities: the historical and ongoing debate

Fourteen new essays trace the historical development of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, a key topic in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of perception. The volume starts with the ancient Greeks, discusses virtually all major figures of the early modern era, and reflects on the place of the topic in philosophy today. INDICE: Introduction; 1: Mi-Kyoung Lee: The Distinction between Primary and Secondary Qualities in Ancient Atomism; 2: Robert Pasnau: Scholastic Qualities, Primary and Secondary; 3: Antonia LoLordo: Gassendi and the 17th-Century Atomists on Primary and Secondary Qualities; 4: Lawrence Nolan: Descartes on 'What We Call Colour'; 5: Lisa Downing: Sensible Qualities and Material Bodies in Descartes and Boyle; 6: Michael Ayers: Primary and Secondary Qualities in Locke's Essay; 7: Edwin McCann: Locke's Distinction between Primary Primary Qualities and Secondary Primary Qualities; 8: Martha Bolton: Primary and SecondaryQualities in the Phenomenalist Theory of Leibniz; 9: Alan Nelson and David Landy: Qualities and Simple Ideas: Hume and his Debt to Berkeley; 10: Kenneth P.Winkler: Hume and the Sensible Qualities; 11: James Van Cleve: Reid on the Real Foundation of the Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction; 12: Gary Hatfield:Kant and Helmholtz on Primary and Secondary Qualities; 13: Alex Byrne and David Hilbert: Are Colors Secondary Qualities?; 14: Barry Maund: Color Eliminativism; Bibliography

• ISBN: 978-0-19-955615-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 416
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés