Primary and Secondary Qualities
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Primary and Secondary Qualities

The Historical and Ongoing Debate

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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 identifyits origins. The remainder of the volume is devoted to philosophical reflections on qualities from the seventeenth century to the present day. Virt...