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14The Theory of Will in Classical Antiquity (review)Review of Metaphysics 37 (3): 624-626. 1984.Albrecht Dihle is professor of classics at Heidelberg. This book is a development of the Sather Classical Lectures given at Berkeley in 1974. It is an important and informative work, rich in detail, clear in argument, and filled with erudition. Dihle begins by contrasting the Hellenistic philosophical understanding of nature with the Jewish religious understanding of the cosmos. The pagan philosophers saw nature and the world as an ordered whole and sought to conform their minds and their lives …Read more
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27Einleitung in die Logik und Erkenntnistheorie (review)Review of Metaphysics 40 (4): 779-781. 1987.This book is the edition of a course given by Husserl in the Winter Semester of 1906-07 at Goettingen. The volume contains a long and informative introduction by the editor, the course itself, which extends for 355 pages, two sets of supplementary texts, which extend for almost 100 pages, and textual-critical remarks and tables of contents. The materials are not dramatically new, but they do shed light on Husserl's development and on the meaning of his teachings in Ideas I and in his well-known …Read more
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15Structuralism and Hermeneutics (review)Review of Metaphysics 37 (2): 422-423. 1983.T. K. Seung criticizes the structuralist program of trying to discover the formal elements underlying language, thinking, and social structures. He also criticizes the post-structural doctrine of writers like Derrida and De Man who renounce the quest for structure and assert the absence of univocity, pattern, presence, and identity in language, thinking, and social behavior.
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34Ideas Pertaining to A Pure Phenomenology and to A Phenomenological Philosophy. First Book (review)Review of Metaphysics 37 (3): 640-642. 1984.The first volume of Husserl's Ideen was published in 1913. Until then Husserl was known as the author of Logical Investigations, which had been published in 1900-1901 and which had generated a philosophical movement after its own image: one marked by anti-psychologism, by a detailed analysis of the phenomena of consciousness, by an interest in logic, by a kind of common-sense realism. The developments in Goettingen and Munich were examples of the influence of Husserl's early work. But the appear…Read more
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43Formal and Material Causality in ScienceProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 69 57-67. 1995.
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32Mental Representation and Consciousness (review)Review of Metaphysics 49 (1): 144-147. 1995.One of the major points in Husserl's philosophy is his insistence that consciousness is structured. He denies that consciousness is simply an undifferentiated awareness and that all the differences occur in the content or object of consciousness. He claims that consciousness itself is articulated; it has parts ordered into different kinds of wholes. The most vivid examples of this articulation are found in "representational" forms of consciousness such as remembering or imaging an experience. Le…Read more
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35Review of Santiago zabala, The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy: A Study of Ernst Tugendhat (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (8). 2008.
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56Identities in manifolds: A Husserlian pattern of thoughtResearch in Phenomenology 4 (1): 63-79. 1974.
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117Phenomenology of the human personCambridge University Press. 2008.In this book, Robert Sokolowski argues that being a person means to be involved with truth. He shows that human reason is established by syntactic composition in language, pictures, and actions and that we understand things when they are presented to us through syntax. Sokolowski highlights the role of the spoken word in human reason and examines the bodily and neurological basis for human experience. Drawing on Husserl and Aristotle, as well as Aquinas and Henry James, Sokolowski here employs p…Read more
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Moral action, a phenomenological studyRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 177 (2): 224-227. 1985.
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102Transcendental PhenomenologyThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 7 233-241. 2000.Transcendental phenomenology is the mind’s self-discovery in the presence of intelligible objects. I differentiate the phenomenological sense of “transcendental” from its scholastic and Kantian senses, and show how the transcendental dimension cannot be eliminated from human discourse. I try to clarify the difference between prephilosophical uses of reason and the phenomenological use, and I suggest that the method followed by transcendental phenomenology is the working out of strategic distinct…Read more
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32Knowing EssentialsReview of Metaphysics 47 (4). 1994.WE OFTEN USE PHRASES like, "knowing the essence of a thing" or "getting to the essence of a thing," but such expressions may be misleading and may provoke unfortunate epistemological problems. They suggest that we somehow extract an essence from the thing and make it, like a new thing, the target of our knowledge. They suggest a kind of vision, acquisition, or possession of the essence itself. If we have such a picture in mind when we speak of knowing an essence, many problems ensue that make us…Read more
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7Studien zur Arithmetik und Geometrie. Texte aus dem Nachlass, 1886-1901 (review)Review of Metaphysics 38 (3): 639-640. 1985.This volume is meant to bring to a close the posthumous edition of the works of Husserl that date from the period prior to Logical Investigations. As such it complements volumes 12 and 22 of Husserliana. It is divided into two major parts; the first deals with arithmetical and the second with geometric issues.
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42Phänomenologie der phänomenologie. Systematik und methodologie der phänomenologie in der auseinadersetzung zwischen Husserl und FinkHusserl Studies 21 (3): 257-261. 2005.
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60Exorcising conceptsReview of Metaphysics 40 (3): 451-463. 1987.FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE says that a word is composed of two parts, a sound-image and a concept: "The linguistic sign unites not a thing and a name, but a concept and an acoustic image." The sound-image signifies the concept: the sound-image is the signifier, the concept is the signified. De Saussure is only one of a large company of thinkers who describe words in this way. Most philosophical and semiotic analyses of words claim that words have two components, a dimension of sounds and a dimension …Read more
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51Roman Ingarden, On the Motives which Led Husserl to Transcendental Idealism (review)Journal of Philosophy 74 (3): 176-180. 1977.
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32James Hart. Who One Is. Book I: Meontology of the “I”; A Transcendental Phenomenology. Phaenomenologica 189. New York: Springer, 2009. Pp. xvi‐566. Who One Is. Book II: Existenz and Transcendental Phenomenology. Phaenomenologica 190. New York: Springer, 2009. Pp. xviii‐649 (review)Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 41 (2): 277-281. 2010.
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127The logic of parts and wholes in Husserl's investigationsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 28 (4): 537-553. 1968.
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178Introduction to PhenomenologyCambridge University Press. 1999.This book presents the major philosophical doctrines of phenomenology in a clear, lively style with an abundance of examples. The book examines such phenomena as perception, pictures, imagination, memory, language, and reference, and shows how human thinking arises from experience. It also studies personal identity as established through time and discusses the nature of philosophy. In addition to providing a new interpretation of the correspondence theory of truth, the author also explains how p…Read more
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31QuotationReview of Metaphysics 37 (4). 1984.QUOTATION is not merely repetition, even though it involves repeating what someone else has said. Quotation is repeating something as having been stated by another. The difference is one of presentational or intentional form. There may be no difference in the words being repeated, but they are repeated differently: it is as though we no longer saw an object directly but now only in a mirror.
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