Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
Publication year: 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4020-6125-7
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Sense perception is one of the classical themes in philosophy. It is traditionally considered a necessary preamble to many important topics, such as the mind-body relationship, consciousness, knowledge, and scepticism. Perception is also a phenomenon which itself raises philosophical questions, such as what is perceptible, what the content of perception is, whether this content is conceptual and how perception is related to epistemic attitudes. While the philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology are the main areas in which perception is dealt with in contemporary philosophy, it is also discussed in the theory of knowledge, cognitive science, philosophical aesthetics and metaphysics. In recent years, the rich tradition of various philosophical theories of perception has been increasingly studied by scholars of the history of philosophy of mind.
Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Aristotle, Avicenna, Plotin, aesthetics, history of philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy, psychology, time
