| 书目名称 | Molyneux’s Problem | | 副标题 | Three Centuries of D | | 编辑 | Marjolein Degenaar | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | International Archives of the History of Ideas‘ Archives internationales d‘histoire des idées | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Suppose that a congenitally blind person has learned todistinguish and name a sphere and a cube by touch alone. Then imaginethat this person suddenly recovers the faculty of sight. Will he beable to distinguish both objects by sight and to say which is thesphere and which the cube? .This was the question which the Irish politician and scientist WilliamMolyneux posed in 1688 to John Locke. Molyneux‘s question hasintrigued a wide variety of intellectuals for three centuries. Thosewho have attempted to solve it include Berkeley, Reid, Leibniz,Voltaire, La Mettrie, Condillac, Diderot, Müller, Helmholtz,William James and Gareth Evans. This book is the first comprehensivesurvey of the history of the discussion about Molyneux‘s problem. Itwill be of interest to historians of both philosophy and psychology. | | 出版日期 | Book 1996 | | 关键词 | Denis Diderot; George Berkeley; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; Hermann von Helmholtz; John Locke; Julien Offr | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-28424-8 | | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-4673-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-0-585-28424-8Series ISSN 0066-6610 Series E-ISSN 2215-0307 | | issn_series | 0066-6610 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1996 |
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