The Nature of Perception

ISBN-13: 9780199256624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 304 str.

John Foster; John Foster

Opis

John Foster addresses the question: what is it to perceive a physical object? He rejects the view that we perceive such objects directly, and argues for a new version of the traditional empiricist account, which locates the immediate objects of perception in the mind. But this account seems to imply that we do not perceive physical objects at all. Foster offers a surprising solution, which involves embracing an idealist view of the physical world.

Recenzje

'[Foster] is a sunnily abstract thinker, striding above all scholarly clutter. The Nature of Perception is a lucid, powerful, beautifully structured book.'

O autorze

John Foster was Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1966 to 2009.