Molyneux's Question and the History of Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780367030926 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 356 str.

Gabriele Ferretti; Brian Glenney

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Presents a philosophically rich and diverse picture of Molyneux's famous puzzle. It will be of great interest to students and researchers in philosophy and the history of psychology and cognitive science, as well as those studying perception and the senses.

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Part I: Historical Advances in Molyneux’s Question   Introduction to Part I   1. Epicureanism and Molyneux's   2. Molyneux, Mysticism, Empiricism, and Independent Thinking   3. A Spinozistic Answer to Molyneux's Question   4. Amo on Molyneux's Question   5. Margaret Cavendish and Molyneux’s Question: Patterning, Perception, and Touch   6. Damaris Masham and Molyneux’s Question: What Response would Masham have given?   7. Molyneux’s Question: The Irish Debates   8. Molyneux’s Question at the Erasmiaans Gymnasium, Rotterdam   9. Molyneux's Vision   Part II: Ethical Advances in Molyneux’s Question   Introduction to Part II   10. The Cult of the Born Completely Blind Man, Revisited   11. The Molyneux Cult   Part III: Empirical Advances in Molyneux’s Question   Introduction to Part III   12. Molyneux's Question and the Semantics of Seeing  13. Molyneux's Question and Neuroscience of Vision   14. No Yes Answers to Molyneux   Part IV: Philosophical Advances in Molyneux’s Question   Introduction to Part IV   15. Molyneux’s Question and Interpersonal Variations in Multimodal Mental Imagery among Blind Subjects   16. Molyneux’s Question and Perceptual Judgments   17. Action at First Sight   18. Molyneux’s Question and Somatosensory Spaces   19. Molyneux on LSD   20. What Was Molyneux’s Question a Question About?