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If a man born blind were to gain his sight in later life would he be able to identify the objects he saw around him? Dr Morgan examines the whole history of this debate. He shows how this debate is involved in the development and eventual separation of philosophy and experimental psychology after the eighteenth century and considers why the original question is effectively still unanswered.

Table of Contents
Preface; Introduction; 1. The background to Molyneux's question; 2. Cataract operations; 3. Diderot's Letter on the Blind; 4. Berkeley and Condillac; 5. Thomas Reid and the new nativism; 6. Lotze and Kant: the theory of local signs; Afterword; Index.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 1/29/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521100670, 978-0521100670
      ISBN10: 0521100674
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      Book Synopsis
      If a man born blind were to gain his sight in later life would he be able to identify the objects he saw around him? Dr Morgan examines the whole history of this debate. He shows how this debate is involved in the development and eventual separation of philosophy and experimental psychology after the eighteenth century and considers why the original question is effectively still unanswered.

      Table of Contents
      Preface; Introduction; 1. The background to Molyneux's question; 2. Cataract operations; 3. Diderot's Letter on the Blind; 4. Berkeley and Condillac; 5. Thomas Reid and the new nativism; 6. Lotze and Kant: the theory of local signs; Afterword; Index.

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