PHIL 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gilbert Ryle, Radiance

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1050
• Professor: Paul Raymont

Document Summary

There was a tendency in descartes" time to take some of our experiential qualities and confine them to our experiences, denying that they occurred outside the mind in nature. Because of senses (colours, smells, tastes, sounds) were not needed in the new mechanistic account of natural phenomena that was offered by the physical sciences (such features as mass, velocity, size, shape, etc. ) Feeling pain is in the mind rather than the body. Sensory qualities are in the mind, not the physical objects. Belief that colours are just in minds. Descartes" view of nature worked parallel with his dualism (minds outside nature) Not only goals, but also colours, sounds, tastes, and other senses are separate from nature. All features that descartes can"t explain are categorized away from nature and labelled as qualities in the mind. External world of nature is strange and alien, not like everyday experience to humans.