Molyneux’s Problem Three Centuries of Discussion on the Perception of Forms /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Degenaar, Marjolein (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1996.
• Σειρά: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D’histoire Des Idées, 147
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; History.; Modern philosophy.; Medicine > History.; Artificial intelligence.; Modern Philosophy.; History, general.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; History of Medicine.

Suppose that a congenitally blind person has learned to distinguish and name a sphere and a cube by touch alone. Then imagine that this person suddenly recovers the faculty of sight. Will he be able to distinguish both objects by sight and to say which is the sphere and which the cube? This was the...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Molyneux’s Problem
• Philosophical Discussions in the Eighteenth Century
• The First Experimental Data
• Empirical Approaches in the Nineteenth Century
• Modern Approaches
• Molyneux’s Problem in Retrospect.