Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Mind, matter and sense qualia; 2 Causing and signifying; 3 Actions and persons; 4 Locke on the knowledge of things themselves; 5 The notions of Berkeley's philosophy; 6 Hume's "appearances" and his vocabulary of awareness; 7 Hume's ontology; Conclusion: The realism of appearances; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book draws on a rich combination of historical and contemporary material to examine one of the fundamental topics in philosophy: the relation between appearance and reality. It will interest a wide range of readers in the history of philosophy and in contemporary philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysics
