Sense and Subjectivity /

Sense and Subjectivity / / Philip Dwyer.

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 '...

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Superior document:Brill's Studies in Epistemology, Psychology and Psychiatry Series ; v.2
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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)
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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.

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