Color, space, and figure in locke: An interpretation of the molyneux problem

Journal of the History of Philosophy

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 47-65

  Berchielli, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

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DOI: 10.1353/hph.2002.0002     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Lievers, "The Molyneux Problem," Journal of the History of Philosophy 30, no. 3 (1992): 399-416, 410;
2. J.-M. Vienne, "Locke et l'intentionnalité: Le problème de Molyneux," Archives de Philosophie 55 (1992): 661-72, 684;
3. Bolton, "The Real Molyneux Question," in G. A. J. Rogers, ed., Locke's Philosophy. Content and Context (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), 75-99, 98;
4. Degenaar, Molyneux's Problem (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996), 25.
5. Cf. G. Brykman, "Sensibles communs et sens communs chez Locke et Berkeley," Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 96, no. 4 (1991): 515-29, 516.
6. In what follows I use the term "immediate" in relation to ideas - there is no time-related connotation. The term will refer to an idea perceived by itself, and not through or by means of any other idea. When I am referring to time I will use the word "instantaneous" or "in an instant." For a discussion of the concept of "immediacy" and "mediacy" see M. Atherton, Berkeley's Revolution in Vision (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990), 68-72,
7. and R. Schwartz, Vision. Variations on Some Berkeleian Themes (Oxford, UK and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1994) 13-7.
8. Cf. M. Atherton, Lessons Learned from the "Theory of Vision Vindicated," text currently in press.
9. see M. Ayers, "The Foundation of Knowledge and the Logic of Substance: The Structure of Locke's General Philosophy," in Rogers, ed., Locke's Philosophy, 49-73, 52.
10. Cf. S. Alpers, The Art of Describing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), 68-70, 80.
11. Cf. M. Ayers, Locke, vol. 1, 48.
12. For a discussion of a similar problem concerning the temporal dimensions of ideas in Berkeley, see R. Glauser's "Berkeley's Theory of Vision and the Structure of Mediate Perception," currently being published.
13. Cf., for example, M. von Senden, Space and Sight, trans. by P. Heath (London: Methuen, 1960), 285-6.
14. Bolton, "The Real Molyneux Question," 81.
15. Cf. also Lievers, "The Molyneux Problem," 408: "The proper objects of the sense of sight are light and colors . . . These 'far different' ideas of space, motion, and figure are also perceived by sight, but in an indirect way."
16. Cf. also Vienne, "Locke et l'intentionnalité: Le problème de Molyneux," 671, 679.
17. Cf. E. B. de Condillac, Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines (Paris: Alive, 1998), Ch. XI, Sect. 6, §4.