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Possibility, Necessity, and Existence: Abbagnano and His Predecessors (review)Interpretation 22 (2): 289-294. 1995.
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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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34James 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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56Visual Intelligence in PaintingReview of Metaphysics 59 (2): 333-354. 2005.Philosophers have long agreed that thinking is expressed in the use of language, that we “think in the medium of words.” It is also true, however, that we think in the medium of pictures, and it is likely that these two ways of thinking are interrelated; certainly, we could not think in pictures if we did not have words, and perhaps we could not use words, in principle, unless we were also engaged in some sort of picturing, at least in our imagination. An ideographic language like Chinese would …Read more
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127Introduction 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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44The Logic of Parts and Wholes in Husserl's InvestigationsIn Jitendranath Mohanty (ed.), Readings on Edmund Husserl's Logical investigations, M. Nijhoff. pp. 94--111. 1977.
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |