Persons: Theories and Perceptions

ISBN-13: 9789024715435 / Angielski / Miękka / 1973 / 131 str.

Desiree Park; Disirie Park; Da(c)Sira(c)E Park

Opis

This volume grew out of a dissatisfaction with some issues that seem to be rooted in the Empiricist tradition. At least since Locke, that which is perceived has enjoyed a major share in any systematic account of what we claim to know. A main purpose of this study therefore is first to distinguish, and subsequently to relate, what can be perceived and what can be under stood. To this end, the account of persons and personal identity begins with a description of selected types of sense perceptions. While writing a good part of the discussion on vision, I had the advantage of questioning Dr. P. B. Loder about the properties of light. She not only clarified some issues, but prevented several errors from creeping into the text, a result for which I am very grateful. I should like also to express my appreciation to Mrs. G. K. Stamm-Okkinga, who provided hospitality and a friendly interest from the beginning of this study. Finally I wish to thank Miss I. Ris and Mr. W. de Regt for their careful and resourceful preparation of the typescript.

Spis treści

Preface.- I. Visual Perception and its Limits.- Descriptions proper to sight.- Ideas and inferences.- Surfaces and perceivers.- II. Not Sights and not Sounds.- Sight.- Hearing.- Theory.- Visible spectrum and scales.- Description of visible spectrum and musical score.- Shape.- Coloring.- Two examples of applied theory.- III. Ideas and Objects.- Perspective and objects.- Bodies 66.- Persistence and range of ideas.- Perspective and interpretation.- IV. Persons.- Credited beliefs or convictions.- Ideas and credited beliefs.- Persons and continuity.- Personal history.- V. Persons and Continuity.- Brown and Robinson.- Some practical problems of Brownson.- Descriptions and assertions in the pursuit of Brownson.- “Quality space” and perception.- Identity and similarity.- VI. Imagination and Explanation.- Ideas and hypotheses.- “Standardised percepts”.- Imagination.- Perspectives.