An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: George Berkeley
- First Published: 1709
- Type of Work: Psychological study of perception
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Eighteenth century, Space and time, Senses or sensation, Touch, Vision
Critical Evaluation:
Berkeley is most importantly a philosopher, the second of the three British Empiricists, following John Locke and preceding David Hume. AN ESSAY TOWARDS A NEW THEORY OF VISION was published in 1709, one year before his first important philosophical work, A TREATISE CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE. Yet the ESSAY is not primarily a philosophical work. It is a study of visual perception which is best classed with experimental psychology. Its major objective is to show how we perceive the distance and size of objects and their...
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