The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
April 1, 2025
Megan Craig
abstract:This article considers the role of testimony in William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience in order to highlight the unique style and structure of the text and its effect on readers. Understanding Varieties as a performative, multivocal, creative experiment in pedagogy and teaching puts the book in conversation with more contemporary theorists of liberatory education...
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
March 17, 2021
A. Conty
abstract:Panpsychism, the view that the material elements of the universe have mental properties, has until quite recently remained in the periphery of the philosophical mainstream due to its blatant contradiction of normative Cartesian dualities, which divided the world into mental properties (that inhere in human beings alone) and material properties, that are devoid of value and sentience....
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
April 11, 2020
Jordan Rodgers
abstract:Richard Rorty has argued that Friedrich Nietzsche and William James are both polytheists in the deflationary sense that they are both pluralists about human value. I argue that there is a more philosophically significant sense in which Nietzsche and James might be called polytheists: both advocate a life of openness and receptivity to multiple and potentially incommensurable sources of...
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
April 11, 2020
M. Sheets‐Johnstone
abstract:The aim of this essay is to flesh out the body subject in ways anchored in Husserlian phenomenology. In accordance with this aim, it begins with clarifications essential to veridical phenomenological accounts of experience. The specific Husserlian insights that follow these clarifications are grounded in experienced realities of animate nature, a nature Husserl consistently describes...
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
September 6, 2019
John Montani
abstract:This essay argues for a conception of poly-intentionality based on Merleau-Ponty's analysis of sense experience in his Phenomenology of Perception. I start by reviewing the tenuous status of sensation in Husserl's early work in order to prepare for a renewed conception of intentionality inspired by Merleau-Ponty—one that is grounded in the body's sense organs. I show how sensations...
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
May 1, 2019
Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
ABSTRACT: This article argues that religious emotions are variations of general emotions that we already know from our everyday life, which nevertheless exhibit specific features that enable us to think of them as forming a coherent subclass. The article claims that there is an experience of joy, sorrow, regret, fear, and so on that is specifically religious. The aim is to develop an account...
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
October 1, 2011
Michael Hodges
2 citations
Research Article| October 01 2011 The Claims for Mysticism in The Varieties of Religious Experience Michael Hodges Michael Hodges Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Speculative Philosophy (2011) 25 (4): 396–411. https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.25.4.0396 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael...
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
2010
Thomas Fuchs
74 citations
The Psychopathology of Hyperreflexivity Thomas Fuchs The structure of human embodiment is fundamentally characterized by a polarity or ambiguity between Leib and Körper, the subjective body and the objectified body, or between being-body and having-a-body. This ambiguity, emphasized, above all, by Helmuth Plessner and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, is also of crucial significance for psychopathology....
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
2008
Cynthia Gayman
440 citations
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X08093575 2008; 14; 129 Body Society Bryan S. Turner Turner, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore pp. 256, ISBN 978 0 521 67587 1 paperback, $24.99 Reviewed by Bryan S. by Richard Shusterman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics Review Article: Somaesthetics and the Critique of...