This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Indirect Realism” area of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It contains the following information:
The immediate objects of perception are mind-dependent objects (sense-data) that are caused by and represent mind-independent objects.
John Locke’s primary/secondary quality distinction.
Issues including:
the argument that it leads to scepticism about the existence of mind-independent objects. Responses including:
Locke’s argument from the involuntary nature of our experience
the argument from the coherence of various kinds of experience, as developed by Locke and Catharine Trotter Cockburn (attrib)
Bertrand Russell’s response that the external world is the ‘best hypothesis’
the argument from George Berkeley that we cannot know the nature of mind-independent objects because mind-dependent ideas cannot be like mind-independent objects.
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