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The notion of 'suggestion' in Thomas Reid's theory of perception

Philosophical Quarterly 3 (13):327-341 (1953)

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(1 other version)The Sensation/Perception Distinction in Reid and Schopenhauer.Douglas McDermid - 2018 - Journal of Scottish Philosophy 16 (2):147-161.details What could Arthur Schopenhauer, the German pessimist and speculative metaphysician of the irrational will, possibly have in common with Thomas Reid, the staid and pious apostle of common sense? Unlike their contemporaries, both philosophers distinguished carefully between sensation and perception. In this essay I examine their respective formulations of the sensation / perception distinction, and I attempt to explain where they agree and where they diverge. Such an examination seems long overdue, for no-one – to the best of my knowledge (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Associationism without associative links: Thomas Brown and the associationist project.Mike Dacey - 2015 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 54 (C):31-40.details There are two roles that association played in 18th–19th century associationism. The first dominates modern understanding of the history of the concept: association is a causal link posited to explain why ideas come in the sequence they do. The second has been ignored: association is merely regularity in the trains of thought, and the target of explanation. The view of association as regularity arose in several forms throughout the tradition, but Thomas Brown (1778–1820) makes the distinction explicit. He argues that (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations

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