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14The Importance of Bodily Movement to Husserl's Theory of "Fremderfahrung"Recherches Husserliennes 19 55-66. 2003.
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10Perceptual occlusion and the differentiation conditionSynthese 203 (5): 1-22. 2024.Numerous philosophers accept the differentiation condition, according to which one does not see an object unless one visually differentiates it from its immediate surroundings. This paper, however, sounds a sceptical note. Based on suggestions by Dretske (2007) and Gibson (2002 [1972]), I articulate two ‘principles of occlusion’ and argue that each principle admits of a reading on which it is both plausible and incompatible with the differentiation condition. To resolve the inconsistency, I sugg…Read more
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1In Light of Experience: Essays on Reason and Perception (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.
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11The Cambridge companion to philosophical methodology (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2017.The volume provides clear and comprehensive coverage of the main methodological debates and approaches within philosophy. The book gives equal weight to analytical and continental approaches, and pays attention to approaches that are often overlooked.
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17The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology (edited book)Routledge. 2011.Phenomenology was one of the twentieth century’s major philosophical movements and continues to be a vibrant and widely studied subject today. _The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology_ is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key philosophers, topics and themes in this exciting subject, and essential reading for any student or scholar of phenomenology. Comprising over fifty chapters by a team of international contributors, the _Companion_ is divided into five clear parts: main figure…Read more
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6The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology (edited book)E-Publications@Marquette. 2011.Phenomenology was one of the twentieth century’s major philosophical movements and continues to be a vibrant and widely studied subject today. The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key philosophers, topics and themes in this exciting subject, and essential reading for any student or scholar of phenomenology. Comprising over fifty chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion is divided into five clear parts: main figures in…Read more
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28Being There: Heidegger’s Formally Indicative Concept of “Dasein”New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 5 145-163. 2005.
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34Husserl and Disjunctivism: Reply to BowerJournal of the History of Philosophy 61 (3): 499-513. 2023.Abstractabstract:In a recent issue of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Matt Bower argues forcefully against A. D. Smith's interpretation of Husserl as a disjunctivist. But I argue in this discussion note that the disjunctive reading of Husserl remains plausible. For it seems Husserl was committed to the idea that perceptions essentially have singular contents, while hallucinations do not.
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94S. taguchi, Das problem Des 'ur-ich' bei Edmund Husserl: Die frage nach der selbstverständlichen 'nähe' Des selbst (review)Husserl Studies 25 (1): 89-95. 2009.
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61Other PeopleIn Dan Zahavi (ed.), The Oxford handbook of contemporary phenomenology, Oxford University Press. 2012.This chapter develops a perceptual solution to the epistemological problem of other minds, relying on central ideas from Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. The Merleau-Pontian account is contrasted with another attempted perceptual solution to the other minds problem, and it is argued that only the former meets the phenomenologists' desideratum of providing an alternative to inferential solutions. The chapter also provides responses to various objections to the perceptual solution, including…Read more
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87Other minds embodiedContinental Philosophy Review 50 (1): 65-80. 2016.I distinguish three kinds of other minds problems—conceptual, epistemological and empirical. I argue that while Merleau-Ponty believes embodiment helps with tackling the conceptual and epistemological problems, he suggests that it is of no clear use in solving the empirical problem. I sketch some considerations that could lend support to Merleau-Ponty’s claims about the conceptual and epistemological problems, without claiming that these are conclusive. I then proceed to argue that Merleau-Ponty…Read more
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17Amodal Completion and the Impurity of PerceptionPhenomenology and Mind 22 (22): 126. 2022.Defenders of The Pure View – “Purists”, as I shall call them – maintain that perception is pure presentation. That is, a perceptual experience has no commitments that exceed what is given or presented in the experience. I argue The Pure View seems unable to offer a convincing account of amodal completion. I distinguish three Purist strategies for addressing amodal completion, and suggest that none is very promising.
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2A compelling new approach to the problem that has haunted twentieth century philosophy in both its analytical and continental shapes. No other book addresses as thoroughly the parallels between Wittgenstein and leading Continental philosophers such as Levinas, Husserl, and Heidegger.
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22In the light of experience: new essays on perception and reasons (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.How does perception provide reasons for our empirical judgements? This volume offers a set of new essays which in different ways address this fundamental question, and investigate the implications for our understanding of perceptual experience.
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132On the looks of thingsPacific Philosophical Quarterly 91 (2): 260-284. 2010.In recent publications, Michael Tye and Alva Noë have claimed that there is a sense in which a tilted plate looks round and another sense in which it looks elliptical. This paper argues that their proposal faces decisive objections. On Tye and Noë's account of ordinary, veridical perception, appearances are in constant conflict. As a characterization of ordinary visual experience, this cannot be correct. I examine various responses to this criticism, and conclude that they all fail. I then argue…Read more
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67Phenomenologists on Perception and Hallucination: Husserl and Merleau‐PontyPhilosophy Compass 17 (8). 2022.There is a chasm in current analytic philosophy of perception between disjunctivists (and naïve realists), on the one hand, and ‘conjunctivists’ (intentionalists), on the other. For more than a decade, scholars of phenomenology have debated how classical phenomenologists such as Husserl and Merleau‐Ponty are to be located vis‐à‐vis this chasm. While there seems to be an emerging consensus that Merleau‐Ponty was a disjunctivist avant la lettre, how to interpret Husserl remains contested.
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29Inside PhenomenologyNew Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 5 398-404. 2005.
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40The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2017.The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology offers clear and comprehensive coverage of the main methodological debates and approaches within philosophy. The chapters in this volume approach the question of how to do philosophy from a wide range of perspectives, including conceptual analysis, critical theory, deconstruction, experimental philosophy, hermeneutics, Kantianism, methodological naturalism, phenomenology, and pragmatism. They explore general conceptions of philosophy, centred …Read more
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374In Jacobsen, M.H. (ed.): Sociologies of the Unnoticed. Palgrave/Macmillan, 2008.
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75The ethical residue of language in Levinas and early WittgensteinPhilosophy and Social Criticism 33 (2): 223-249. 2007.Using the later Levinas as a point of departure, this article tries to provide an account of the ethics of Wittgenstein's Tractatus . Although there has not been written much on this topic, there seems to be an increasing awareness among philosophers that there are interesting points of convergence between Levinas and the early Wittgenstein. In contrast to most (if not all) other accounts of the relation, however, this article argues that the truly significant convergence emerges only when one a…Read more
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19Being There: Heidegger's Formally Indicative Concept of DaseinThe New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 5 145-163. 2005.
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26A compelling new approach to the problem that has haunted twentieth century philosophy in both its analytical and continental shapes. No other book addresses as thoroughly the parallels between Wittgenstein and leading Continental philosophers such as Levinas, Husserl, and Heidegger.
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37The Vertical-Horizontal IllusionErkenntnis 88 (2): 441-455. 2021.Näive Realists have recently proposed that illusions occur in circumstances that are ‘non-paradigmatic’ or with which we are insufficiently familiar. While this proposal may work for many of the illusions philosophers normally discuss, I argue in this paper that there are other illusions that do not fit this pattern. In particular, the vertical-horizontal illusion (VHI) occurs in circumstances that are both familiar and paradigmatic, while disappearing (or becoming attenuated) in more unusual ci…Read more
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2Understanding (other) minds : Wittgenstein's phenomenological contributionIn Edoardo Zamuner & D. K. Levy (eds.), Wittgenstein’s Enduring Arguments, Routledge. 2008.
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