Knowledge And Perception Essays And Lectures H A Prichard First Harold Arthur Prichard by Harold Arthur Prichard 9781013344343, 1013344340 instant download after payment.

For the last twenty years of his life, during and after his tenure of the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Oxford, Prichard’s thought and writing were mainly occupied with ethical subjects. But his only published book had been on Kant’s Theory of Know- ledge, and he had lectured at least as much on the nature of knowledge and of perception as on moral philosophy. The back- bone of the present volume consists of a series of lectures on the Theory of Knowledge as it was treated by Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume—lectures which were written and rewritten during the years 1927 to 1932 and last delivered in the latter year. To these have been added two of his most important articles — ‘Mr. Bertrand Russell on our Knowledge of the External World’ (1915) and ‘The Sense-datum Fallacy’ (1938), a paper on ‘Per- ception’ read to a Cambridge society, and short papers on ‘Seeing Movements’ and on ‘The Apprehension of Time’. The following articles have not been included in this volume—‘Appearances and Reality’, ‘A Criticism of the Psychologists’ Treatment of Know- ledge’, ‘Philosophic Pre-Copernicanism : an Answer’, ‘Professor John Cook Wilson’, and ‘Mr. Bertrand Russell’s Outline of Philo- sophy , published in Mind in the years 1906, 1907, 1910, 1919, and 1928 respectively.

Much of Prichard’s philosophical writing took the form of letters to his friends (which he often asked them to return to him), and these often exhibit the firmness and the subtlety of his thought as forcibly as anything that he published or that has been pub- lished since his death. The letters are not, for the most part, in a form suitable for publication; but they contain much that is of value, and it is proposed to make many of them available to students by depositing them in the Bodleian Library.

Thanks are due to the editor of Mind for permission to reprint ‘Mr. Bertrand Russell on our Knowledge of the External World’, and to the Aristotelian Society for permission to reprint ‘The Sense-datum

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