Wittgenstein on Sensation and Perception

Name: Wittgenstein on Sensation and Perception
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ISBN: 9781315402123

ISBN-10: 1315402122

ISBN-13: 9781315402123

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Authors: Michael Hymers

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This book offers two novel claims about Wittgensteins views and methods on perception as explored in the Philosophical Investigations. The first is an interpretive claim about Wittgenstein: that his views on sensation and perception, including his critique of private language, have their roots in his reflections on sense-datum theories and on what Hymers calls the misleading metaphor of phenomenal space. The second is a major philosophical claim: that Wittgensteins critique of the misleading metaphor of phenomenal space is of ongoing relevance to current debates concerning first-person authority and the problem of perception because we are still tempted to draw inferences about the…

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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