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37The Idea of Dialogal Phenomenology. By Stephen Strasser. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press. 1969. Pp. xiii, 136. $5.95 (review)Dialogue 11 (3): 452-455. 1972.
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15Seeing and Reading Graeme Nicholson Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1984. Pp. 275. $25.00Dialogue 25 (4): 782-. 1986.Nicholson's goal is to show that interpretation of a text can be done rigorously and be true. He argues this by showing that perception also has an interpretative dimension yet we usually accept claims rooted in perception as true. This effort to show the soundness of hermeneutical criticism is in fact an attempt to show that anti-foundationalism does not default to relativism. I trace his well-prosecuted argument for the truth of interpretation to the point where it becomes opaque. The argume…Read more
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29Critical Notice of Peter Jones, Philosophy and the Novel (review)Canadian Journal of Philosophy 9 (1): 163-178. 1979.Jones sketches a theory of interpretation of literary works and tests it on Middlemarch, Anna Karenina, Brothers Karamazov and A la recherche du temps perdu. The theory centers on creativity and the strong parallelisms between artistic and critical production. The result is that the critic is shown to have considerable latitude in reading a text--perhaps too much. Jones acknowledges the danger of stressing inferred rather than observed features of texts. He sees his sketch of a theory of int…Read more
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23Sartre as a Transcendental RealistJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 1 (2): 22-26. 1970.
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6Pietro Pomponazzi and the Debate over ImmortalityPhilosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 3 855-860. 1988.
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The Epistemological Function of an Affective Principle in the Phenomenology of IntersubjectivityDissertation, University of Southern California. 1966.
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1Wolfgang lser, Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 10 (8): 322-325. 1990.
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47Schlick's critique of phenomenological propositionsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 45 (2): 195-225. 1984.
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Maurita J. Harney, Intentionality, Sense, and the Mind (review)Philosophy in Review 6 284-287. 1986.
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J.N. Mohanty, The Possibility Of Transcendental Philosophy (review)Philosophy in Review 6 284-287. 1986.
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1The Psychology of Knowing, edited by J. R. Royce and W. W. Rozeboom (review)Studia Philosophica 34 (n/a): 242. 1974.Proceedings of the Banff Congress on Theoretical Psychology. Philosophers and psychologists discuss the relative merits of their approaches to the study of consciousness.
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Lucian Krukowski, Aesthetic Legacies Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 15 (3): 184-187. 1995.Krukowski, a painter/philosopher, tries to understand postmodern art and then speculates about what post-postmodern art will be. He gives a valuable account of the roots of modernism in 19th C philosophy and of its slide into skepticism about art serving any epistemic function. Postmodern aesthetics though is just an inconsistent mix of modernist ideas and their opposites. Postmodern artists believed themselves creative only by coming up with a work, or an idea, unconnected to modernism. Post-p…Read more
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27Discipline-Based Art Education and the New AestheticsThe Journal of Aesthetic Education 28 (2): 1. 1994.
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78“The Female is Somewhat Duller”: The Construction of the Sexes in Ornithological LiteratureEnvironmental Ethics 20 (1): 23-39. 1998.I review ornithological literature in order to demonstrate that conventions of description and illustration, as well as some aspects of biological theory relating to birds, put a strong focus on male birds. I criticize the sexist aspects of ornithology from the standpoint of recent feminist philosophy of science, establishing connections between the ways in which we view animals and the ways in which we viewourselves and arguing that it is costly to humans, specifically women, to suggest that fe…Read more
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241Peter Atterton and Matthew Calarco, eds., Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental Thought Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 25 (4): 235-237. 2005.The editors cull the works of 11 noted French and German philosophers for their contributions to the debate about what animals are like and how we should relate to them. Each selection gives the gist of the philosopher's view followed by a noted scholar's comments. The result, as Peter Singer notes in his merciless Foreward, is that most of the Continentals have had almost nothing of interest to say on the topic.
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1John Sallis, ed., Husserl and Contemporary Thought Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 4 (5): 230-230. 1984.
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5Hubert L. Dreyfus, ed., Husserl, Intentionality, and Cognitive Science (review)Philosophy in Review 5 (1): 11-14. 1985.This is a collection of articles clarifying the nature of Husserlian phenomenology. Dreyfus argues that, given that Husserl put intentionality at the centre of cognitive investigation and painstakingly analyzed it and related concepts in logic, linguistics and psychology he is the father of current research in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. The authors include Follesdal, Fodor, Mohanty and Searle among others.
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Silvia Benso, The Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 21 (5): 317-320. 2001.
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Introduction to “Author's Preface to the English edition of Ideas.”In Peter McCormick & Frederick A. Elliston (eds.), Husserl: Shorter Works, University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 36-42. 1981.In his Preface to Ideas, Husserl gives a concise overview of his phenomenology and addresses two serious objections to his phenomenological program. My Introduction to his Preface provides the background to the writing of the piece and suggests it does not do enough to counter the charges of psychologism and idealism.
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