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832Naturalism ReconsideredPhilosophy Today 56 (1): 78-83. 2012.While naturalism is used in positive senses by the tradition of analytical philosophy, with Ludwig Wittgenstein its best example, and by the tradition of phenomenology, with Maurice Merleau-Ponty its best exemplar, it also has an extremely negative sense on both of these fronts. Hence, both Merleau-Ponty and Wittgenstein in their basic thrusts adamantly reject reductionistic naturalism. Although Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology rejects the naturalism Husserl rejects, he early on found a place for …Read more
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125Peirce, Merleau-ponty, and perceptual experience: A Kantian heritageInternational Studies in Philosophy 19 (3): 33-42. 1987.Not only does peirce's theory of meaning as dispositional or as habit contain parallels with merleau-ponty's view of meaning in the structure of human behavior, but also both peirce and merleau-ponty alike attack reductivistic theories of perception. within this context, the present paper focuses on the use of kantian schemata in the philosophies of peirce and merleau-ponty, but to the extent that such incorporations are consistent with trends in pragmatism and phenomenology in general, it will …Read more
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97Marcel and RicoeurAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 80 (3): 421-433. 2006.This article on mystery and hope at the boundary of reason in the postmodern situation responds to the challenge of postmodern thinking to philosophyby a recourse to the works of Gabriel Marcel and his best disciple, Paul Ricoeur. It develops along the lines of their interpretation of hope as a central phenomenon in human experience and existence, thus shedding light on the philosophical enterprise for the future. It is our purpose to dwell briefly on this postmodern challenge and then, incorpor…Read more
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71Recognizing Ricoeur: In memoriamResearch in Phenomenology 37 (2): 175-194. 2007.My aim in this memorial paper is to recall two essential Ricoeurean themes that underlie his entire philosophical orientation and that respond well to specific challenges today from post-modern deconstruction. At question is whether Ricoeur's account of sign in language and the living present in time can adequately respond to and meet the recent challenge from postmodern deconstruction, which radically challenges the very root of his phenomenological and hermeneutic orientation: the priority of …Read more
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70Meaning and human behavior: Mead and Merleau-pontySouthern Journal of Philosophy 26 (3): 339-349. 1988.
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66Scientific time and the temporal sense of human existence: Merleau-ponty and MeadResearch in Phenomenology 20 (1): 152-163. 1990.
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65Thematic studies in phenomenology and pragmatismGrüner Pub. Co.. 1983.PREFACE The six themes chosen for study in the following text are themes deeply embedded within the respective structures of phenomenology and pragmatism, ...
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61Sensation, perception and immediacy: Mead and Merleau-pontySouthwest Philosophy Review 6 (1): 105-111. 1990.A focus on the relation between sensation and the perceptual object in the philosophies of G H Mead and Maurice Merleau-Ponty points toward their shared views of perception as non-reductionistic and holistic, as inextricably tied to the active role of the sensible body, and as involving a new understanding of the nature of immediacy within experience. This essay explores these shared views.
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60Lewis, Heidegger, and Kant: Schemata and the Structure of Perceptual ExperienceSouthern Journal of Philosophy 17 (2): 239-248. 1979.
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51The integrity and fallenness of human existenceSouthern Journal of Philosophy 25 (1): 123-132. 1987.
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48Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty on the Pre-Reflective LevelPhilosophy Today 63 (2): 335-345. 2019.The philosophies of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Maurice Merleau-Ponty may seem at first glance to be mutually exclusive. On further examination, however, they can be seen to share some fundamental points of view. For instance, they both share a common rejection of a modern mechanistic explanation of nature, and both endorse what we might call a pre-linguistic level of meaning. In this paper, we show that these thinkers not only share some fundamental philosophical views, but also had, for many years…Read more
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47The Present as the Seat of Temporal ExistenceInternational Studies in Philosophy 25 (3): 1-15. 1993.
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38Introduction: VIolence: And PostmodernityBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 10 (2): 5-31. 1998.none
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37Pragmatism, scientific method, and the phenomenological return to lived experiencePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 38 (1): 56-65. 1977.
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36The Philosophy of the Act and the Phenomenology of Perception: Mead and Merleau-PontySouthern Journal of Philosophy 28 (1): 77-90. 1990.Mead and Merleau-Ponty each portray the perceptual field as a field of spatially and temporally located, ontologically "thick" or resisting objects which are essentially related to the horizon of world, which allow for the very structure of the sensing which gives access to them, and whose manner of emergence undercuts the problematics of the subject-object split. This essay surveys this perceptual field as a focus for eliciting their more fundamental shared understanding of the dimensions of hu…Read more
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35From Common Roots to a Broader VisionAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 70 (3): 381-396. 1996.
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35Taming Violence: Ricoeur and DerridaBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 10 (2): 42-58. 1998.none.
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35Critical Reflections on “Object and Phenomenon and the Deconstructed Present”American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 67 (2): 253-256. 1993.
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33The Religious Significance of Ricoeur’s Post-Hegelian Kantian EthicsProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 65 (n/a): 133-144. 1991.
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32Hermeneutics of Symbols and Philosophical Reflection: Paul RicoeurPhilosophy Today 15 (4): 231-241. 1971.
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32Critical Philosophy and Post-Critical FaithAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 76 (3): 431-450. 2002.This paper focuses on the intertwining of philosophy and Christian faith in the concrete life of the Christian philosopher, with a view toward the compatibility of critical philosophy and a post-critical faith. Philosophy, as an enterprise of reason alone, is independent of Christian faith and theology. In accord with its definition, philosophy seeks evidence along the lines of reason independent of outside authority, and thus is autonomous from such faith. Yet, for the Christian philosopher, wi…Read more
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32Ricoeur and Marcel: An Alternative to Postmodern DeconstructionBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 7 (1-2): 164-175. 1995.none
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32Ricoeur Between Levinas and Heidegger: Another Furtlher AlterityBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 11 (2): 33-52. 1999.none
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30Mead and Merleau-Ponty: Toward a Common VisionState University of New York Press. 1991.Unites George Herbert Mead and Maurice Merleau-Ponty in a shared rejection of substance philosophy as well as spectator theory of knowledge, in favor of a focus on the ultimacy of temporal process and the constitutive function of social praxis
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