Betwixt Feeling and Thinking: Two-Level Accounts of Experience

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What sense can we make of Hume's notorious distinction between impressions and ideas? This chapter looks at two sense-datum theories of experience that offer competing accounts of the contrast between sensation and imagination. John Foster's two-level account of experience presented in The Case for Idealism and The Nature of Perception is contrasted with Bertrand Russell's discussion of sensation, imagination and memory in The Theory of Knowledge manuscript. The key elements of both approache...

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Authors: Martin, M

• Publication status: Accepted
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Publisher's website
• Host title: Acquaintance
• Place of publication: Oxford
• ISBN: 9780198803461
• Keywords: David Hume; sense perception; imagination; GEM Anscombe; experience; representation; Bertrand Russell; sensation; sense-data; memory; John Foster; appearance; SBTMR