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Molyneux's Question: Vision, Touch and the Philosophy of Perception
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Molyneux's Question: Vision, Touch and the Philosophy of Perception Hardback - 1977

by Michael J. Morgan

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If a man born blind were to gain his sight in later life would he be able to identify the objects he saw around him? Would he recognise a cube and a globe on the basis of his earlier tactile experiences alone? This was William Molyneux's famous question to John Locke and it was much discussed by English and French empiricists in the eighteenth century as part of the controversy over innatism and abstract ideas. Dr Morgan examines the whole history of this debate: Locke's own (negative) answer to the question, the contributions of Berkeley, Condillac, Diderot and Voltaire and the factual accounts of early cataract operations and modern laboratory studies. He shows how this debate is involved in the development and eventual separation of philosophy and experimental psychology after the eighteenth century and considers why the original question is effectively still unanswered. This is one problem-area with its intricate cluster of connected conceptual and technical difficulties which suggests the need for some reunion or at least collaboration between the two subjects.

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  • Title Molyneux's Question: Vision, Touch and the Philosophy of Perception
  • Author Michael J. Morgan
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Publication date 1977
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521215589 / 0521215587
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Touch, Visual perception
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 76054066
  • Dewey Decimal Code 152.140

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Inscribed by Morgan! Brown cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has mild wear to corners and spine ends, binding tight, text has a few ink lines in margins of first chapter, otherwise text clean. DJ has edgewear that includes some small tears, rubbing and toning.
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