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1474Husserl, Intentionality, and Cognitive Science (edited book)MIT Press. 1984.This new anthology will serve as an ideal introduction to phenomenology for analytic philosophers, both as a text and as the single most useful source book on Husserl for cognitive scientists.
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171Homer has a unique understanding of the body. On his view the body is that by means of which we are subject to moods, and moods are what attune us to our situation. Being attuned to a situation, in turn, opens us to the various ways things and people can be engaging. We agree with Homer that this receptivity is evident throughout our entire existence. It characterizes everything from our basic bodily skills for coping with objects and people to our tendency to be immersed in and guided by moods …Read more
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15Art, Poetry, and Technology: Heidegger Reexamined (edited book)Routledge. 2002.First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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359The primacy of phenomenology over logical analysis: A critique of SearlePhilosophical Topics 27 (2): 3-24. 1999.
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119Holism and HermeneuticsReview of Metaphysics 34 (1). 1980.OF THE many issues surrounding the new interest in hermeneutics, current debate has converged upon two
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189Samuel Todes's account of non-conceptual perceptual knowledge and its relation to thoughtRatio 15 (4): 392-409. 2002.Samuel Todes’s book, Body and World, makes an important contribution to the current debate among analytic philosophers concerning non–conceptual intentional content and its relation to thought. Todes’s relevant theses are: (1) Our unified, active body, in moving to meet our needs, generates a unified, spatio–temporal field. (2) In that field we use our perceptual skills to make the determinable perceptual objects that show up relatively determinate. (3) Once we have made the objects of practical…Read more
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140Foucault's critique of psychiatric medicineJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 12 (4): 311-333. 1987.From his earliest published work, Mental Illness and Personality (1954), to his last project, The History of Sexuality , Foucault was critical of the human sciences as a dubious and dangerous attempt to model a science of human beings on the natural sciences. He therefore preferred existential therapy, which did not attempt to give a causal account of human nature, but rather described the general structure of the human way of being and its possible distortions. Foucault focused his attack on ps…Read more
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82Body and WorldMIT Press. 2001.Body and World is the definitive edition of a book that shouldnow take its place as a major contribution to contemporary existentialphenomenology. Samuel Todes goes beyond Martin Heidegger and MauriceMerleau-Ponty in his description of how independent physical natureand experience are united in our bodily action. His account allows himto preserve the authority of experience while avoiding the tendencytoward idealism that threatens both Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty.Todes emphasizes the complex str…Read more
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2Reply to Romdenh-RomlucIn Thomas Baldwin (ed.), Reading Merleau-Ponty: On Phenomenology of Perception, Routledge. 2007.
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194Comments on Jonathan Lear’s Radical HopePhilosophical Studies 144 (1): 63-70. 2009.Cultural devastation, and the proper response to it, is the central concern of "Radical Hope". I address an uncertainty in Lear's book, reflected in a wavering over the difference between a culture's way of life becoming impossible and its way of life becoming unintelligible. At his best, Lear asks the radical ontological question: when the cultural collapse is such that the old way of life has become not only impossible but retroactively unimaginable,—when nothing one can do makes sense anymore…Read more
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200You can't get something for nothing: Kierkegaard and Heidegger on how not to overcome nihilismInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 30 (1 & 2). 1987.This paper analyzes Kierkegaard's Religiousness A sphere of existence, presented in his edifying works, and Heidegger's concept of authenticity, proposed in Being and Time, as responses to modern nihilism. While Kierkegaard argues that Religiousness A is an unsuccessful response to modern nihilism, Heidegger claims that authenticity, a secularized version of Religiousness A, is a successful response. We argue that Heidegger's secularization of Religiousness A is incomplete and unsuccessful, that…Read more
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68Phenomenological description versus rational reconstructionRevue Internationale de Philosophie 55 (216): 181-196. 2001.
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835Why Heideggerian ai failed and how fixing it would require making it more HeideggerianPhilosophical Psychology 20 (2). 2007.MICHAEL WHEELER Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005432 pages, ISBN: 0262232405 (hbk); $35.001.When I was teaching at MIT in the 1960s, students from the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory would come to...
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10Heidegger, Unbestimmtheit und »Die Matrix«In Gerhard Gamm (ed.), Unbestimmtheitssignaturen der Technik, Transcript Verlag. pp. 203-218. 2005.
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103Anonymity versus commitment: The dangers of education on the internet (review)Educational Philosophy and Theory 34 (4). 2002.I shall translate Kierkegaard's account of the dangers and opportunities of what he called the Press into a critique of the Internet so as to raise the question: what contribution -- for good or ill -- can the World Wide Web, with its ability to deliver vast amounts of information to users all over the world, make to educators trying to pass on knowledge and to develop skills and wisdom in their students? I will then use Kierkegaard's three-stage answer to the problem of lack of involvement pose…Read more
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75The socratic and platonic basis of cognitivismAI and Society 2 (2): 99-112. 1988.Artificial Intelligence, and the cognitivist view of mind on which it is based, represent the last stage of the rationalist tradition in philosophy. This tradition begins when Socrates assumes that intelligence is based on principles and when Plato adds the requirement that these principles must be strict rules, not based on taken-for-granted background understanding. This philosophical position, refined by Hobbes, Descartes and Leibniz, is finally converted into a research program by Herbert Si…Read more
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10210 How Heidegger defends the possibility of a correspondence theory of truth with respect to the entities of natural scienceIn Hubert L. Dreyfus & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), Heidegger Reexamined, Routledge. pp. 4--219. 2002.
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1A framework for misrepresenting knowledgeIn Martin Ringle (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence, Humanities Press. 1979.
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6The challenge of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of embodiment for cognitive scienceIn Gail Weiss & Honi Fern Haber (eds.), Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture, Routledge. pp. 103--120. 1999.
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332From socrates to expert systems: The limits and dangers of calculative rationalityIn Carl Mitcham & Alois Huning (eds.), Philosophy and Technology II: Information Technology and Computers in Theory and Practice, Reidel. 1985.Actual AI research began auspiciously around 1955 with Allen Newell and Herbert Simon's work at the RAND Corporation. Newell and Simon proved that computers could do more than calculate. They demonstrated that computers were physical symbol systems whose symbols could be made to stand for anything, including features of the real world, and whose programs could be used as rules for relating these features. In this way computers could be used to simulate certain important aspects intelligence. Thu…Read more
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7Empirical evidence for a pessimistic prognosis for cognitive scienceBehavioral and Brain Sciences 1 (1): 105-105. 1978.
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16Single-World versus Plural-World Antiessentialism: A Reply to Tim DeanCritical Inquiry 23 (4): 921-932. 1997.
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