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 John Locke
Information on Locke
The British
philosopher who taught at Oxford University from the 17th century and was, for a
while at the end of this century, a political dissident in France and Holland. Largely credited with the
development of the Enlightenment, and whose Essay on Human Understanding
determined our modern understanding of blindness and perception.
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 George
Berkeley
Information on Berkeley
Academically,
Bishop Berkeley was a polymath, and wrote widely on a multitude of
subjects. He was the first to empirically test and observe the question
William Molyneux posed to John Locke, when he
tested a boy recovering from congenital blindness in the 18th century. He
found it took a while for the boy to understand his new world.
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Eco
Ancient Greek, Verb, pronounced Ekh-o. The
Transliterated word is Echo. New Testament Greek Lexicon
“[To] have (hold) in the hand, in the sense of wearing, to have
(hold) possession of the mind (refers to alarm, agitating emotions, etc.),
to hold fast keep, to have or comprise or involve, to regard or consider
or hold as.”
Source: http://www.crosswalk.com
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 Denis Diderot
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on Diderot
A French
philosopher, atheist and one time ally of the king of France, Diderot became
a political prisoner and later wrote A Letter on the Blind. This
questioned the omnipotence of accepted doctrine, and championed the
morality of the blind population. It was also a political move to
challenge the primacy of sight in human understanding.
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 Thomas nagel
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on Nagel
Nagel is a
contemporary philosopher based at New York University. Although specialising in ethics and the law, Nagel has written
on the subject of subjectivity and objectivity of identity, and their
links to perception. His best known essay on this topic is What Is It Like
To Be A Bat, in which he discusses an understanding in terms of
a world identity constructed without vision.
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 Robert hopkins
Information on Hopkins
Hopkins is
a British philosopher, currently teaching at Sheffield University, whose
prime area of interest is the understanding of pictures and aesthetics.
Although he argues that congenitally blind people can develop a sense of
understanding of sculpture, he disagrees with Kennedy, for example, in his
belief that pictorial representation is purely visual.
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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on Merleau-Ponty
A French
philosopher who wrote about the phenomenology of perception, and
particularly how it relates to the identity of the self, around the middle
of the 20th century. Although he did not address blindness and the arts
directly, his discussion concepts such as “the phantom limb” and “the
blind man’s cane” addressed a physically disabled social identity.
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