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A Percepção Da Extensão. Exame das teses de Berkeley Cover

A Percepção Da Extensão. Exame das teses de Berkeley

By: Pedro MS. Alves  
Open Access
|Oct 2021

Abstract

In this paper I discuss Berkeley’s theories about vision, perception of distance, and the foundations of Geometry. I start with Locke’s answer to Molineaux’s problem and the criticisms Berkeley addressed to it. I explain the fundamentais of Berkeley’s theory about our cognitive shaping of the visual field and the type of connections that visual data establishes with data from the haptic field. I show how interesting are Berkeley’s conceptions for a phenomenology of perception, and, eventually, I carried some phenomenological evidence against Berkeley’s too much strict location of the idea of distance in the haptic field alone.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2009-0005 | Journal eISSN: 2183-0142 | Journal ISSN: 0874-9493
Language: English
Page range: 71 - 90
Published on: Oct 19, 2021
Published by: Sciendo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

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