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- catalog abstract ""John Foster presents a penetrating investigation into the question: what is it to perceive a physical object? Is perceptual contact with a physical object, he asks, something fundamental, or does it break down into further factors? If the latter, what are these factors, and how do they combine to secure the contact?" "For most of the book, Foster addresses these questions in the framework of a realist view of the physical world. But the arguments which thereby unfold - arguments which undermine direct realism and establish a version of the sense-datum theory - lead to the conclusion that we do not perceive physical objects at all. The only way to avoid this conclusion is by abandoning physical realism for a form of idealism, and this is the option which Foster finally embraces."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b11632028.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""John Foster presents a penetrating investigation into the question: what is it to perceive a physical object? Is perceptual contact with a physical object, he asks, something fundamental, or does it break down into further factors? If the latter, what are these factors, and how do they combine to secure the contact?" "For most of the book, Foster addresses these questions in the framework of a realist view of the physical world. But the arguments which thereby unfold - arguments which undermine direct realism and establish a version of the sense-datum theory - lead to the conclusion that we do not perceive physical objects at all. The only way to avoid this conclusion is by abandoning physical realism for a form of idealism, and this is the option which Foster finally embraces."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-286) and index.".
- catalog description "Part 1. The reshaping of the issue. The traditional issue ; The two interpretations ; SDR and BRT -- pt. 2. An examination of strong direct realism. The issue before us ; The causal argument ; Contact and content ; The presentational view ; The internalist view ; Conclusion -- pt. 3. The mediating psychological state. Introduction ; The cognitive theory ; The imagist proposal ; The nature of the secondary qualities ; The sense-datum theory ; The adverbilist alternative ; The sense-datum theory revised -- pt. 4. The problem of perception. Introduction ; The emergence of the problem ; An argument from analogy ; A deepening of the problem ; Taking stock -- pt. 5. The idealist solution. The new option ; An argument for idealism ; The unfinished story.".
- catalog extent "viii, 289 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0198237693".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "152.1 21".
- catalog subject "B828.45 .F67 2000".
- catalog subject "Perception (Philosophy)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part 1. The reshaping of the issue. The traditional issue ; The two interpretations ; SDR and BRT -- pt. 2. An examination of strong direct realism. The issue before us ; The causal argument ; Contact and content ; The presentational view ; The internalist view ; Conclusion -- pt. 3. The mediating psychological state. Introduction ; The cognitive theory ; The imagist proposal ; The nature of the secondary qualities ; The sense-datum theory ; The adverbilist alternative ; The sense-datum theory revised -- pt. 4. The problem of perception. Introduction ; The emergence of the problem ; An argument from analogy ; A deepening of the problem ; Taking stock -- pt. 5. The idealist solution. The new option ; An argument for idealism ; The unfinished story.".
- catalog title "The nature of perception / John Foster.".
- catalog type "text".