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34Symposium papers, comments and an abstract: Bodily versus cognitive intentionality?Noûs 22 (1): 51-52. 1988.The body, merleau-ponty claimed, carries a unique form of intentionality that is not reducible to the intentionality of thought. i propose to separate several different forms of intentionality concerning such ``bodily intentionality'': awareness of one's body and bodily movement; purposive action; and perception of one's environment in acting. these different forms of awareness are interdependent in specific ways. no one form of intentionality--cognitive or practical--is an absolute foundation f…Read more
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23Robert S. Tragesser. Phenomenology and logic. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London1977, 138 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 46 (1): 166-167. 1981.
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92Phenomenal intentionality, inner awareness, and the givenSynthese 199 (3-4): 10059-10076. 2021.Responding to the myth of a purely sensuous “given”, we turn to phenomenology, to the structure of consciousness in an everyday perception of an everyday object. We first consider Brentano’s model of an act of consciousness: featuring the presentation of an object “intentionally” contained “in” the act, joined by the presentation of that object-presentation in “inner consciousness”. We then dig into Husserl’s intricate “semantic” theory of intentionality: featuring “noematic” meaning within a “h…Read more
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110Nibbanic (or Pure) Consciousness and BeyondPhilosophia 39 (3): 475-491. 2011.Pike’s phenomenology of mystical experiences articulates sharply where theological content may enter the structure of Christian mystics’ experiences (as characterized in their own words). Here we look to Buddhist (and other) accounts of pure or nibbanic consciousness attained in experiences of deep meditation. A contemporary modal model of inner awareness is considered whereby a form of pure consciousness underlies and embraces further content in various forms of consciousness, including mystica…Read more
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11Mohanty's Logic of Phenomenology: The TranscendendentalPhilosophy Today 46 (Supplement): 186-204. 2002.
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126Mathematical form in the worldPhilosophia Mathematica 10 (2): 102-129. 2002.This essay explores an ideal notion of form (mathematical structure) that embraces logical, phenomenological, and ontological form. Husserl envisioned a correlation among forms of expression, thought, meaning, and object—positing ideal forms on all these levels. The most puzzling formal entities Husserl discussed were those he called ‘manifolds’. These manifolds, I propose, are forms of complex states of affairs or partial possible worlds representable by forms of theories (compare structuralism…Read more
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110Indexical sense and referenceSynthese 49 (1). 1981.This is a study of the epistemology of indexical reference, Or its foundation in the intentionality of the speaker's awareness of the referent. Where the referent is the object of the speaker's acquaintance on that occasion, The sense expressed is the generic content of that awareness. This, Indexical sense determines indexical reference, But indexical sense works by appeal to the context of the speaker's awareness of the referent. It is discussed how, By virtue of indexical sense, Indexical ref…Read more
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180How to Husserl a Quine — and a Heidegger, tooSynthese 98 (1): 153-173. 1994.Is consciousness or the subject part of the natural world or the human world? Can we write intentionality, so central in Husserl's philosophy, into Quine's system of ontological naturalism and naturalized epistemology — or into Heidegger's account of human being and existential phenomenology? The present task is to show how to do so. Anomalous monism provides a key.
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19Husserl's phenomenology and the foundations of natural scienceHistory of European Ideas 18 (3): 422-425. 1994.
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11I. Miller, Husserl, Perception, and Temporal Awareness (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (3): 500. 1987.
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48Husserl's Legacy: Phenomenology, Metaphysics, & Transcendental Philosophy by Dan Zahavi. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2017, 256 pp. ISBN: 9780199684830. Hbk £30.00 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 27 (1): 284-290. 2019.
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85Husserl’s Identification of Meaning and NoemaThe Monist 59 (1): 115-132. 1975.This essay is a study of Edmund Husserl’s conception of meaning. In this first section we indicate its importance for his conception of phenomenology. In Section 2 we see that Husserl’s conception of linguistic meaning, of its nature as “ideal” and its role in mediating reference, is almost exactly that of his contemporary Gottlob Frege. In Sections 3 and 4 we further argue that, for Husserl, linguistic meaning and noematic Sinn are one and the same. For, according to Husserl, every linguistic m…Read more
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48Husserl and Tarski: the Semantic Conception of Intentionality and TruthIn Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock (ed.), Husserl as Analytic Philosopher, De Gruyter. pp. 143-174. 2016.
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120Consciousness in actionSynthese 90 (1): 119-43. 1992.A phenomenology of action is outlined, analyzing the structure of volition, kinesthesis, and perception in the experience of action, and, finally, the experience of embodiment in action. The intentionality of action is contrasted with that of thought and perception in regard to the role of the body, and the relations between an action, the experience of acting, and the context of the action are specified
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42Perception, Context, and Direct RealismIn Dan Zahavi (ed.), The Oxford handbook of contemporary phenomenology, Oxford University Press. 2012.This chapter, which is concerned with the phenomenology of perception, especially the role of content and context in the intentionality of perception, tries to provide an account of the structure of perceptual experience and its intentional relation to its objects. In particular, it presents an analysis of consciousness and intentionality in perception. Perceptual experience is sensuous and paradigmatically intentional. The intentional character of a visual experience of an object is different t…Read more
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5Husserl, Perception, and Temporal Awareness, by Izchak Miller (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (3): 500-505. 1987.