This paperback edition reproduces the complete text of the Essay as prepared by professor Nidditch for The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke. The Register of Formal Variants and the Glossary are omitted and Professor Nidditch has written a new foreword.

Fourteen newly commissioned essays trace the historical development of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, which lies at the intersection of issues in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of perception. 'Primary and Secondary Qualities' focuses on the age of the Scientific Revolution, the 'locus classicus' of the distinction, but begins with chapters on ancient Greek and Scholastic accounts of qualities in an effort to identify its origins. The remainder of the volume is devoted to philosophical reflections on qualities from the (...) seventeenth century to the present day. Virtualliy every major figure is represented from Gassendi to Kant, and special attention is paid to Locke, Descartes, and Hume. The essays collected here cover a wide range of topics, including the foundation for the distinction, the question of whether it is lmetaphysical or merely epistemic, the status of secondary qualities, the nature of sensoriy representation, the relation between philosophy and science, the status of dispositions, and the semantics of sensible-quality terms"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of dust jacket. (shrink)

While the 'sense of place' is a familiar theme in poetry and art, philosophers have generally given little or no attention to place and the human relation to place. In Place and Experience, Jeff Malpas seeks to remedy this by advancing an account of the nature and significance of place as a complex but unitary structure that encompasses self and other, space and time, subjectivity and objectivity. Drawing on a range of sources from Proust and Wordsworth to Davidson, Strawson and (...) Heidegger, he argues that the significance of place is not to be found in our experience of place so much as in the grounding of experience in place, and that this binding to place is not a contingent feature of human existence, but derives from the very nature of human thought, experience and identity as established in and through place. (shrink)

Der vorliegende Band der Phaenomenologica bringt den durch gesehenen, im wesentlichen unveränderten Text einer Disserta tion, die im Sommersemester 1963 von der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Köln angenommen wurde. Ich nehme dieses Vorwort zum Anlaß, noch einmal Herrn Professor Dr. Ludwig Landgrebe für die Förderung zu danken, die die vorliegende Arbeit durch ihn erfahren hat. Gedankt sei auch dem Direktor des Husserl-Archives zu Louvain, Herrn Professor Dr. Dr. h. c. H. L. van Breda, für die freundliche Erlaubnis, aus unveröffentlichten Manuskripten (...) zu zitieren. Köln, im Mai 1964 U. c. INHALTSVERZEICHN 1S Einleitung I 1. TEIL. ALLGEMEINE VORZEICHNUNG DES PROBLEMS DER 7 TRANSZENDENTALEN KONSTITUTION DES RAUMES I. Abschnitt: Die Rolle der Konstitutionsproblematik ~m Rahmen der allgemeinen Phänomenologie 9 § I. Zur Einführung: Der Husserlsche Weltbegriff 9 § 2. Die Vorgegebenheit der Welt und das ontische Apriori I4 § 3. Der Rückgang zur transzendentalen Subjektivität. Transzendentale Subjektivität und Intentionalität I9 § 4. Die Idee der Intentionalanalyse und das Problem des transzendentalen Leitfadens 22 § 5. Das Wesen als transzendentaler Leitfaden 27 § 6. Intentionalanalyse und Konstitution. Das konsti- tive Apriori 32 2. Abschnitt: Das Apriori der Raum-Zeitlichkeit und die regionale Ontologie des Dinges 35 § 7. Zur Begründung des Husserlschen Ansatzes der Theorie der Raumkonstitution an der regionalen - tologie des Dinges 35 § 8. Die Schichtung im regionalen Apriori des Dinges 40 § 9. Die Möglichkeit einer nicht mathematischen Wissen schaft vom Raume. (shrink)

This is a translation of Edmund HusserI's lecture course from the Summer semester 1907 at the University of Gottingen. The German original was pub lished posthumously in 1973 as Volume XVI of Husserliana, Husserl's opera omnia. The translation is complete, including both the main text and the supplementary texts (as Husserliana volumes are usually organized), except for the critical apparatus which provides variant readings. The announced title of the lecture course was "Main parts of the phenome nology and critique of (...) reason." The course began with five, relatively inde pendent, introductory lectures. These were published on their own in 1947, bearing the title The idea ojphenomenology.l The "Five Lectures" comprise a general orientation by proposing the method to be employed in the subsequent working out of the actual problems (viz., the method of "phenomenological reduction") and by clarifying, at least provisionally, some technical terms that will be used in the labor the subsequent lectures will carry out. The present volume, then, presents that labor, i.e., the method in action and the results attained. As such, this text dispels the abstract impression which could not help but cling to the first five lectures taken in isolation. Accord ingly, we are here given genuine "introductory lectures," i.e., an introduction to phenomenology in the genuine phenomenological sense of engaging in the work of phenomenology, going to the "matters at issue themselves," rather than remaining aloof from them in abstract considerations of standpoint and approach. (shrink)