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599Merleau-ponty and the mystery of perceptionPhilosophy Compass 4 (4): 630-638. 2009.This article offers an overview of the structure and significance of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. Neither a psychological nor an epistemological theory, Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception is instead an attempt to describe perceptual experience as we experience it. Although he was influenced heavily by Husserl, Heidegger, and Gestalt psychology, his work departs significantly from all three. Particularly original is his account of our bodily, precognitive experience of other persons, w…Read more
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295On the inescapability of phenomenologyIn David Woodruff Smith & Amie L. Thomasson (eds.), Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 67. 2005.
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277Retrieving Realism, by Hubert Dreyfus and Charles TaylorMind 127 (506): 585-593. 2018.Retrieving Realism, by DreyfusHubert and TaylorCharles. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 184.
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215The Body in Husserl and Merleau-PontyPhilosophical Topics 27 (2): 205-226. 1999.The terminological boxes into which we press the history of philosophy often obscure deep and important differences among major figures supposedly belonging to a single school of thought. One such disparity within the phenomenological movement, often overlooked but by no means invisible, separates Merleau-Pontys Phenomenology of Perception from the Husserlian program that initially inspired it. For Merleau-Pontys phenomenology amounts to a radical, if discreet, departure not only from Husserls t…Read more
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173Heidegger's Analytic: Interpretation, Discourse and Authenticity in Being and TimeCambridge University Press. 2003.This 2003 book offers an interpretation of Heidegger's major work, Being and Time. Unlike those who view Heidegger as an idealist, Taylor Carman argues that Heidegger is best understood as a realist. Amongst the distinctive features of the book are an interpretation explicitly oriented within a Kantian framework and an analysis of Dasein in relation to recent theories of intentionality, notably those of Dennett and Searle. Rigorous, jargon-free and deftly argued this book will be necessary readi…Read more
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121Dennett on seemingPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 6 (1-2): 99-106. 2007.Dennett’s eliminativist theory of consciousness rests on an implausible reduction of sensory seeming to cognitive judgment. The “heterophenomenological” testimony to which he appeals in urging that reduction poses no threat to phenomenology, but merely demonstrates the conceptual indeterminacy of small-scale sensory appearances. Phenomenological description is difficult, but the difficulty does not warrant Dennett’s neo-Cartesian claim that there is no such thing as seeming at all as distinct fr…Read more
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114On making sense (and nonsense) of HeideggerPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (3): 561-572. 2001.Herman Philipse’s Heidegger’s Philosophy of Being is an attempt to interpret, analyze, and ultimately discredit the whole of Heidegger’s thought. But Philipse’s reading of the texts is uncharitable, and the ideas he presents and criticizes often bear little resemblance to Heidegger’s views. Philipse relies on a crude distinction between “theoretical” and “applicative” interpretations in arguing that Heidegger’s conception of interpretation as a kind of projection is, like the liar’s paradox, for…Read more
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108The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2004.Maurice Merleau-Ponty was described by Paul Ricoeur as 'the greatest of the French phenomenologists'. The essays in this volume examine the full scope of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, from his central and abiding concern with the nature of perception and the bodily constitution of intentionality to his reflections on science, nature, art, history, and politics. The authors explore the historical origins and context of his thought as well as its continuing relevance to contemporary work in phenomen…Read more
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102On being social: A reply to OlafsonInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 37 (2). 1994.Frederick Olafson criticizes Hubert Dreyfus’s interpretation of BEING AND TIME on a number of points, including the meaning of being, the nature of intentionality, and especially the role of das Man in Heidegger’s account of social existence. But on the whole Olafson’s critique is unconvincing because it rests on an implausible account of presence and perceptual intuition in Heidegger’s early philosophy, and because Olafson maintains an overly individuated notion of Dasein and consequently a one…Read more
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100Was Heidegger a linguistic idealist?Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 45 (2). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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98First persons: On Richard Moran's authority and estrangementInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 46 (3). 2003.Richard Moran's Authority and Estrangement offers a subtle and innovative account of self-knowledge that lifts the problem out of the narrow confines of epistemology and into the broader context of practical reasoning and moral psychology. Moran argues convincingly that fundamental self/other asymmetries are essential to our concept of persons. Moreover, the first- and the third-person points of view are systematically interconnected, so that the expression or avowal of one's attitudes constitut…Read more
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80Review of Thomas Baldwin (ed.), Reading Merleau-Ponty: On Phenomenology of Perception (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (6). 2008.
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77Review of Steven Galt Crowell, Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning: Paths Toward Transcendental Phenomenology (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (2). 2002.
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61Review of Maurice Merleau-ponty, Nature: Course Notes From the College de France (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (6). 2004.
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58Merleau-PontyRoutledge. 2005.Maurice Merleau-Ponty is one of the most important philosophers of the Twentieth century. His theories of perception and the role of the body have had an enormous impact on the humanities and social sciences, yet the full scope of his contribution not only to phenomenology but philosophy generally is only now becoming clear. In this lucid and comprehensive introduction, Taylor Carman explains and assesses the full range of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy. Beginning with an overview of Merleau-Ponty’s…Read more
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50Heidegger on Correspondence and CorrectnessGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 28 (2): 103-116. 2007.
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45Review of Mauro Carbone, The Thinking of the Sensible: Merleau-Ponty's a-Philosophy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (9). 2005.
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40The Self after Postmodernity (review)Review of Metaphysics 52 (1): 175-177. 1998.Calvin Schrag’s Self after Postmodernity is a trim but ambitious book. In it Schrag sets out to correct, or at least to temper—sometimes seemingly to appease—what he regards as the excesses and distortions arising from contemporary assaults on the concepts of selfhood and subjectivity, arising particularly from recent French philosophy. In so doing, he tries to articulate a response to the problem of modernity as framed by Weber and Habermas, that is, in terms of the increasing mutual alienation…Read more
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31Heidegger on Being Uncanny, by Katherine Withy. Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press, 2015, vi + 250 pp. ISBN Hardback 978‐0‐674‐41670‐3 $45.00 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 25 (3): 899-903. 2017.
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28Heidegger’s Philosophy of Art (review)Philosophical Review 112 (4): 575-580. 2003.This book is probably the best comprehensive treatment of Heidegger’s philosophy of art currently available in English. A little over a third of the volume deals with the most widely read and discussed of Heidegger’s texts concerning art, the 1936 essay, “The Origin of the Work of Art.” The remaining hundred pages or so then go beyond that familiar territory into many other sources, including Heidegger’s lectures on Hölderlin and Nietzsche, his later essays on poetry and language, and his occasi…Read more
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22After Modernity: Husserlian Reflections on a Philosophical Tradition (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (2): 550-553. 1999.After Modernity is a collection of fifteen short essays, ten of them previously published elsewhere, centering around interpretations of Husserl and applications of his phenomenology to large philosophical problems concerning time and the self. The volume is held together loosely by the author’s answer to the crisis of modernity, a crisis consisting in the apparent hopelessness of grounding norms in superworldly Platonic forms or the rational subject posited by Descartes and Kant. Mensch advocat…Read more
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22Sensation, judgment, and the phenomenal fieldIn Taylor Carman & Mark B. N. Hansen (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty, Cambridge University Press. pp. 50--73. 2005.
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21Review of Robert J. Dostal (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (10). 2002.
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16The Conspicuousness of Signs in « Being and Time »Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 22 (3): 158-169. 1991.
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14On Making Sense (and Nonsense) of Heidegger (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (3): 561-572. 2001.Herman Philipse's Heidegger's Philosophy of Being is an attempt to interpret, analyze, and ultimately discredit the whole of Heidegger's thought. But Philipse's reading of the texts is uncharitable, and the ideas he presents and criticizes often bear little resemblance to Heidegger's views. Philipse relies on a crude distinction between “theoretical” and “applicative” interpretations in arguing that Heidegger's conception of interpretation as a kind of projection (Entwurf) is, like the liar's pa…Read more
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