Professor Marc-Wogau's Theorie der Sinnesdata
by C. D. Broad

Published in Mind LVI, No. 221 (1947): 1-30; No. 222 (1947): 97-131.

INTRODUCTION.

  1. Preliminary Remarks on Terminology.
  2. Preliminary Sketch of Marc-Wogau's Theory.
SECTION I. GENERAL PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS
  1. Particular Individuals.
  2. Identity and Difference.
  3. Existence.
  4. Material Things.
    1. the Self-Identity of a thing through time.
    2. the Unity of a thing in relation to its many contemporary aspects.
SECTION II. MARC-WOGAU'S OWN ACCOUNT OF SENSE-PERCEPTION AND ITS OBJECTS.
  1. Macroscopic Objects.
  2. Microscopic and Ultra-microscopic Objects.
SECTION III. MARC-WOGEAU'S EXAMINATION OF CERTAIN ARGUMENTS FOR ALTERNATIVE TIIEORIES.
  1. Argument frown Hallucination and Illusion.
  2. Argument from Solidity.
  3. Argument from Continuity.
  4. Argument from Certainty and Uncertainty about Existence.
  5. Argument from Covariance.
    1. Russell's Argument about Colour.
    2. Argument from the finite Velocity of Light.
SECTION IV. MARC-WOGAU'S ATTITUDE TO PHENOMENALISM.
  1. Philosophical Analysis in General.
  2. Equivalence, Identity of Content, and Sameness of Meaning.
  3. Is Phenomenalism possible?
  4. The relative Certainty of M-propositions and S-propositions.
CONCLUSION.


Transcribed into hypertext by Andrew Chrucky, April 16, 2001.