Journal of the history of philosophy
March 31, 2026
Joshua Trubowitz, J. Stern, Evan Sommers et al.
abstract:A widespread view has it that, for Aristotle, perception's psychological and physiological aspects are phenomenal consciousness and its underlying material basis. I argue on the contrary that they are judgment/discrimination and receptivity: in virtue of our sense organs, we are receptive to objects of perception; in virtue of our souls, we judge or discriminate these objects. In...
Journal of the history of philosophy
July 1, 2025
Matyáš Moravec
1 citation
abstract: This paper explores a hitherto overlooked chapter in the history of analytic philosophy, namely the role that psychical research (i.e. the study of phenomena like telepathy, clairvoyance, ghosts, or communication with spirits of the dead) played in British philosophy between 1940 and 1960. This paper focuses on Casimir Lewy’s (1919–91) engagement with psychical research and...
Journal of the history of philosophy
2025
Matyáš Moravec
21 citations
abstract: C. D. Broad developed three different accounts of time over the course of his career. Emily Thomas recently argued that the shift from the first to the second of these was motivated by his engagement with the philosophy of Samuel Alexander. In this paper, I argue that the shift from the second to the third was instigated by Broad’s engagement with precognitive dreams and with the...
Journal of the history of philosophy
October 1, 2023
Dimitris Apostolopoulos
abstract: I argue that Merleau-Ponty's reading of Hegel's account of experience exerts a significant and hitherto overlooked influence on his attempt to recast Phénoménologie de la perception 's account of intentionality. This reading informs two important claims of his later projects: that intentional relations are more fundamental than their relata, and that a metaphysical condition...
Journal of the history of philosophy
April 3, 2020
A. Klein
42 citations
abstract:Received wisdom has it that psychologists and philosophers came to mistrust consciousness for largely behaviorist reasons. But by the time John Watson had published his behaviorist manifesto in 1913, a wider revolt against consciousness was already underway. I focus on William James, an earlier influential source of unease about consciousness. James's mistrust of consciousness grew out...
Journal of the history of philosophy
July 1, 2010
Matt Hettche
Contemporary discussions on the literary format of Descartes's Meditations typically focus on two issues. The first is whether Descartes's text resembles and is possibly influenced by the genre of religious devotional exercises, and the second is whether the stylistic devices employed by Descartes are philosophically significant. Building upon the efforts of Gary Hatfield, Bradley Rubidge, and...
Journal of the history of philosophy
July 1, 1977
Daniel Cook
19 citations
James's "Ether Mysticism" and Hegel DANIEL J. COOK THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE, James was a persistent critic of Hegel and Hegelianism . Very often he attacked Hegel with derision as well as earnest argument. One attitude that has been cited as evidence of James's light-hearted and cavalier treatment of Hegel concerns his comments on Hegel while under the influence of nitrous oxide (N20). In this paper...
Journal of the history of philosophy
April 1, 1975
Michele F Epstein
1 citation
The Common Ground of Merleau-Ponty's and Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Man MICHELE F. EPSTEIN I. THE MIND--BODYPROBLEMis one of those old philosophical puzzles that appear to defy solution and remain today as controversial and perplexing as ever. Monistic materialists, on the one hand, and dualists, on the other, despair of ever succeeding in winning over their opponents or in reaching even the...
Journal of the history of philosophy
1975
John David Caputo
9 citations
Meister Eckhartand the Later Heidegger: The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought Part Two JOHN D. CAPUTO III. HEIDEGGERAND ECKHART Space does not permit us to pursue Eckhart's thought in any greater detail. We must instead turn to Heidegger and develop the striking parallel of the latter's thought to that of the mystic of Hochheim. Dasein and the Ground of the Soul. Both Eckhart and...