Primary and secondary qualities
Subtitle: the historical and ongoing debate
By: edited by Lawrence Nolan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780199556151
Subjects: Perception (Philosophy); Qualität (Philosophie); Ontologie; Theory of Knowledge; Metaphysics; History
Other titles: Primary & secondary qualities
Description: "Fourteen newly commissioned essays trace the historical development of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, which lies at the intersection of issues in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of perception. 'Primary and Secondary Qualities' focuses on the age of the Scientific Revolution, the 'locus classicus' of the distinction, but begins with chapters on ancient Greek and Scholastic accounts of qualities in an effort to identify its origins. The remainder of the volume is devoted to philosophical reflections on qualities from the seventeenth century to the present day. Virtualliy every major figure is represented from Gassendi to Kant, and special attention is paid to Locke, Descartes, and Hume. The essays collected here cover a wide range of topics, including the foundation for the distinction, the question of whether it is lmetaphysical or merely epistemic, the status of secondary qualities, the nature of sensoriy representation, the relation between philosophy and science, the status of dispositions, and the semantics of sensible-quality terms"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [386]-404) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The distinction between primary and secondary qualities in ancient Greek philosophy / Mi-Kyoung Lee; title: Scholastic qualities, primary and secondary / Robert Pasnau; title: Gassendi and the seventeenth-century atomists on primary and secondary qualities / Antonia LoLordo; title: Descartes on "What we call color" / Lawrence Nolan; title: Sensible qualities and material bodies in Descartes and Boyle / Lisa Downing; title: Primary and secondary qualities in Locke's 'Essay' / Michael Ayers; title: Locke's distinction between primary primary qualities and secondary primary qualities / Edwin McCann; title: Primary and secondary qualities in the phenomenalist theory of Leibniz / Martha Brandt Bolton; title: Qualities and simple ideas : Hume and his debt to Berkeley / Alan Nelson and David Landy; title: Hume and the sensible qualities / Kenneth P. Winkler; title: Reid on the real foundation of the primary-secondary quality distinction / James Van Cleve; title: Kant and Helmholtz on primary and secondary qualities / Gary Hatfield; title: Are colors secondary qualities? / Alex Byme and David R. Hilbert; title: Colour eliminativism / Barry Maund.