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62The Sense of Space (review)Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 11 (1): 183-187. 2007.
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21Merleau-Ponty and the Institution of Animate Form: The Generative Origins of Animal Perception and MovementChiasmi International 15 201-218. 2013.From his earliest work in The Structure of Behavior, Maurice Merleau-Ponty abrogates accounts of organic form that posit the organism as either passively ordered by the environment which precedes it, or as actively constituting its environment. I argue that Merleau-Ponty first develops what I term a genetic concept of form, in which the organism-environment relationship unfolds developmentally. This account of genetic form, however, requires a further concept of generative form to overcome the c…Read more
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16From Biomimicry to BiosophiaEnvironmental Philosophy 18 (2): 259-278. 2021.Biomimicry promises great progress in ecological design. Advocates, hinging on the work of Janine Benyus, argue that biomimicry enhances sustainable technologies. This essay suggests conceptual and ethical improvements to biomimicry: first by considering Michael Fisch’s concept of bioinspiration through studying Neri Oxman’s Silkworm Pavilion and second, through the articulation of a new concept of biosophia, drawing on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s late Institution and Nature lectures. His investigat…Read more
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4The birth of sense: generative passivity in Merleau-Ponty's philosophyOhio University Press. 2018.In The Birth of Sense, Don Beith proposes a new concept of generative passivity, the idea that our organic, psychological, and social activities take time to develop into sense. More than being a limit, passivity marks out the way in which organisms, persons, and interbodily systems take time in order to manifest a coherent sense. Beith situates his argument within contemporary debates about evolution, developmental biology, scientific causal explanations, psychology, postmodernism, social const…Read more
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4Merleau-Ponty and the Institution of Animate Form: The Generative Origins of Animal Perception and MovementChiasmi International 15 201-218. 2013.From his earliest work in The Structure of Behavior, Maurice Merleau-Ponty abrogates accounts of organic form that posit the organism as either passively ordered by the environment which precedes it, or as actively constituting its environment. I argue that Merleau-Ponty first develops what I term a genetic concept of form, in which the organism-environment relationship unfolds developmentally. This account of genetic form, however, requires a further concept of generative form to overcome the c…Read more
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The Birth of Sense: Generative Passivity in Merleau-Ponty's PhilosophyOhio University Press. 2018.In The Birth of Sense, Don Beith proposes a new concept of generative passivity, the idea that our organic, psychological, and social activities take time to develop into sense. More than being a limit, passivity marks out the way in which organisms, persons, and interbodily systems take time in order to manifest a coherent sense. Beith situates his argument within contemporary debates about evolution, developmental biology, scientific causal explanations, psychology, postmodernism, social const…Read more
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Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology of Inter-Corporeal Selfhood. An Encounter with Scott L. Marrato, "The Incorporeal Self: Merleau-Ponty on Subjectivity"Phaenex: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 10. 2015.
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