Primary and Secondary Qualities —— The Historical and Ongoing Debate

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ISBN: 9780199556151 出版年：2011 页码：415 Oxford University Press

Fourteen new essays trace the historical development of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, a key topic in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of perception. The volume starts with the ancient Greeks, discusses virtually all major figures of the early modern era, and reflects on the place of the topic in philosophy today.