Sense and Subjectivity / / Philip Dwyer.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Epistemology, Psychology and Psychiatry Series ; v.2
• VerfasserIn: Dwyer, Philip,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 1990.
• Year of Publication: 1990
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in Epistemology, Psychology and Psychiatry Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 223 pages)

The philosophies of Merleau-Ponty and the later Wittgenstein are shown to yield a common position opposing 'realist' attempts to reduce appearance, sense, and meaning to perception-independent objects and relations. Their 'Gestalt Philosophy' thus constitutes a new form of 'anti- realism'.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- I. Merleau-Ponty's Presupposition Arguments -- Introduction -- The Presupposition Argument as a Transcendental Argument -- The Presupposition Argument Without the Transcendental Point -- (i) The world as perceived and the Gestalt -- (ii) Attempted derivations of sense -- (iii) Gestalt qualities -- (iv) The sense of the Gestalt and intentional sense -- (v) A final example of Merleau-Ponty's presupposition argument -- Summary -- II. Merleau-Ponty's Transcendence Arguments -- Introduction -- The Transcendence Fallacy Regarding Experience, or Phenomenological Idleness -- (i) A preliminary note on phenomenological description -- (ii) "The prejudice of the objective world" -- The Transcendence Fallacy concerning the World as Perceived, or Idle Determinacy -- Summary -- III. Wittgenstein and the Transcendence and Presupposition Arguments -- Introduction -- The Transcendence and Presupposition Arguments Applied to Psychological Phenomena -- IV. Wittgenstein's Application of the Transcendence and Presupposition Arguments to Language -- Platonism and Tractarianism as Objectivism, or the Traditional Prejudices and the Return to Phenomena -- Signs and Sense -- Analysis -- Simples -- Family Resemblance -- Ostensive Definition -- Rules, Explanation and Understanding -- Private Language -- (i) The first private language argument -- (ii) The second private language argument -- Concluding Unscientific Corroboration -- V. Language, Sense and the Gestalt -- Introduction -- Language and Music -- Gestures -- Physiognomy -- Seeing-as and Rule-following -- What is the Meaning of a Word? -- VI. Merleau-Ponty and Language -- VII. Mathematics as a Gestalt Phenomenon and the Issue of Indeterminacy -- Introduction -- Wittgenstein on Mathematics.

Indeterminacy in Mathematics and Other Fields -- Logical Analysis and Ontological Prejudice -- VIII. Anti-Psychologism and Scepticism -- Introduction -- Frege and Descartes -- An Ambiguity about "Psychologism" -- Wittgensteinian Psychologism -- Scepticism and Anti-psychologism: "Two-Kinds" Theses -- Unwitting Sceptics -- IX. Natural History and Existence -- Introduction -- Transcendental Arguments in Wittgenstein -- Natural History and Existence -- Language and Freedom -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.