How Long to Read Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception

How Long Does it Take to Read Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 28 minutes to read Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception by Walter R. Ott

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The seventeenth century witnesses the demise of two core doctrines in the theory of perception: naive realism about color, sound, and other sensible qualities and the empirical theory, drawn from Alhacen and Roger Bacon, which underwrote it. This created a problem for seventeenth century philosophers: how is that we use qualities such as color, feel, and sound to locate objects in the world, even though these qualities are not real? Ejecting such sensible qualities from the mind-independent world at once makes for a cleaner ontology, since bodies can now be understood in purely geometrical terms, and spawns a variety of fascinating complications for the philosophy of perception. If sensible qualities are not part of the mind-independent world, just what are they, and what role, if any, do they play in our cognitive economy? We seemingly have to use color to visually experience objects. Do we do so by inferring size, shape, and motion from color? Or is it a purely automatic operation, accomplished by divine decree? This volume traces the debate over perceptual experience in early modern France, covering such figures as Antoine Arnauld, Robert Desgabets, and Pierre-Sylvain Regis alongside their better-known countrymen Rene Descartes and Nicolas Malebranche.

How long is Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception?

Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception by Walter R. Ott is 259 pages long, and a total of 67,081 words.

This makes it 87% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 6 minutes to read Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception aloud.

What Reading Level is Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception?

Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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