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Description:: My dissertation draws on Heideggers interpretation of Kant to argue that Kant overestimates the role that causality plays in structuring our experience. Heidegger suggests that Kants analysis of experience mistakenly universalizes a fraction of our experience: the experience of material things. I defend the merits of this suggestion by offering...
Keyword:: Causality, Phenomenology, Heidegger, Imagination, Transcendental Philosophy, and Kant
Subject:: Philosophy
Creator:: Morganna Lambeth
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/08/2019
Date Modified:: 11/20/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: In this dissertation I pose a new puzzle about desire, one grounded in three plausible but jointly inconsistent propositions. According to the standard view in metaphysics, (1) all desires are dispositional states. Epistemologists, though, think that (2) we have privileged access to some of our desires. But (3) it is...
Keyword:: Self-Knowledge, Attitudes, Desire, Phenomenology, Introspection, and Dispositional States
Subject:: Philosophy
Creator:: Jared Thomas Peterson
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/22/2018
Date Modified:: 10/22/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: First published in German in 1940 and widely recognized as a classic of philosophical anthropology, Laughing and Crying considers this significant pair of types of expressive behavior, considering them both in themselves and in their relation to the fundamental nature of humanity.
Keyword:: Phenomenology
Subject:: Philosophy
Creator:: Marjorie Grene, Helmuth Plessner, and James Spencer Churchill
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Publisher:: Northwestern University Press
Date Uploaded:: 08/10/2018
Date Modified:: 08/10/2018
Date Created:: 1970
Resource Type:: Book

Description:: First published in German in 1917, On Emotional Presentation investigates the interrelation of emotions, values, and obligation. Alexius Meinong presents a realist theory of values in which values are given in and through emotion but are also ontologically independent of emotion or any subjective attitude. Meinongs first discusses the concept...
Keyword:: Phenomenology
Subject:: Philosophy
Creator:: J. N. Findlay, Alexius Meinong, and Marie-Luise Schubert Kalsi
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Publisher:: Northwestern University Press
Date Uploaded:: 08/10/2018
Date Modified:: 08/10/2018
Date Created:: 1972
Resource Type:: Book

Description:: Motive and Intention is a critique of certain conceptual foundations of the description and judgment of human action. Drawing on sources such as narrative history, Roy Lawrence analyzes examples of such assessments and provides and independent base for appraising familiar and tenacious theoretical presumptions. In so doing he illuminates many...
Keyword:: Phenomenology
Subject:: Philosophy
Creator:: Roy Lawrence
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Publisher:: Northwestern University Press
Date Uploaded:: 08/10/2018
Date Modified:: 08/10/2018
Date Created:: 1972
Resource Type:: Book

Description:: The Anatomy of Disillusion is an introduction to Heideggers phenomenology that focuses on Heideggers notion of truth. Unlike many of his contemporaries, W.B. Macomber presents Heidegger as a systematic thinker, whose phenomenology is inextricably bound up with his ontology and epistemology.
Keyword:: Phenomenology
Subject:: Philosophy
Creator:: W. B. Macomber
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Publisher:: Northwestern University Press
Date Uploaded:: 08/09/2018
Date Modified:: 08/09/2018
Date Created:: 1967
Resource Type:: Book

Description:: InReason and Evidence in Husserls PhenomenologyDavid Michael Kleinberg-Levinexamines Husserls concept of necessary, a priori, and absolutely certain indubitable evidence, which he terms apodictic, and his related concept of complete evidence, which he terms adequate. To do so it explicates some of the more general relevant features of phenomenology as a...
Keyword:: Phenomenology
Subject:: Philosophy
Creator:: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Publisher:: Northwestern University Press
Date Uploaded:: 08/09/2018
Date Modified:: 08/09/2018
Date Created:: 1970
Resource Type:: Book

Description:: Having an emotion involves having an evaluative point of view on one’s circumstances. For example, there is a sense in which being angry involves taking oneself to have been wronged, and fear seems to paint the scene as one of danger. A significant debate in contemporary philosophy of mind concerns...
Keyword:: Intentionality, Consciousness, Emotions, Representation, Perceptualism, and Phenomenology
Subject:: Philosophy
Creator:: Thomson, Mark
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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