The Journal of Philosophy
2011
Declan Smithies
68 citations
Perception enables us to think demonstrative thoughts about the world around us, but what must perception be like in order to play this role? Does perception enable demonstrative thought only if it is conscious? This paper examines three accounts of the role of consciousness in demonstrative thought, which agree that consciousness is essential for demonstrative thought, but disagree about why...
The Journal of Philosophy
2011
Timothy Lane, Caleb Liang
24 citations
Sydney Shoemaker, developing an idea of Wittgenstein’s, argues that we are immune to error through misidentification relative to the first-person pronoun. Although we might be liable to error when “I” (or its cognates) is used as an object, we are immune to error when “I” is used as a subject (as when one says, “I have a toothache”). Shoemaker claims that the relationship between “I” as-subject...
The Journal of Philosophy
1994
Scott Sturgeon
91 citations
L'A. se penche sur le probleme des qualia, les proprietes phenomenales d'un individu qui font de ses experiences et perceptions, des faits purement subjectifs. Il tente d'en comprendre la nature, et montre que le dualisme âme-corps peut etre evite meme si l'on ne parvient pas a une comprehension des qualia
The Journal of Philosophy
June 27, 1968
James M. Edie, Paul Ricoeur, Edward G. Ballard et al.
188 citations
Paul Ricoeur was one of the foremost interpreters and translators of Edmund Husserl's philosophy. These nine essays present Ricoeur's interpretation of the most important of Husserl's writings, with emphasis on his philosophy of consciousness rather than his work in logic. In Ricoeur's philosophy, phenomenology and existentialism came of age and these essays provide an introduction to the...
The Journal of Philosophy
October 1, 1964
Huston Smith
113 citations
Until six months ago, if I picked up my phone in Cambridge area and dialed KISS-BIG a voice would answer, Ifif. These were coincidences: KISS-BIG simply happened to be letter equivalents of an arbitrarily assigned telephone number, while I.F.I.F. represented initials of an organization with improbable name of International Federation for Internal Freedom. But coincidences were apposite to point...