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111Deirdre’s Smile: Names, Faces, and ‘the Simple Actuality’ of AnotherSophia 60 (1): 209-223. 2019.The paper explores what it could mean to speak of love as involving a delight in ‘the simple actuality’ of another, or, as Buber does, of the ‘touchable’ human being as ‘unique and devoid of qualities’. Developing strands in Merleau-Ponty’s treatment of perception, it is argued that the relation between recognising this as a particular individual and recognising particular qualities in her may be close to the reverse of what might be supposed: a recognition of this distinctive smile being depend…Read more
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29Other Times: Philosophical Perspectives on Past, Present and FutureMind 108 (432): 761-764. 1999.
David Cockburn
University of Wales Trinity St David's
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University of Wales Trinity St David'sRetired faculty
Areas of Specialization
| The Passage of Time, Misc |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| Philosophy of Mind |
| Philosophy of Language |