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Crisis and reflection : an essay on Husserl's Crisis of the European sciences
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ISBN: 1402021747 1402021755 9781402021756 9781402021749 Year: 2004 Volume: 174 Publisher: Dordrecht Kluwer

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In his last work, "Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology", Edmund Husserl formulated a radical new approach to phenomenological philosophy. Unlike his previous works, in the "Crisis" Husserl embedded this formulation in an ambitious reflection on the essence and value of the idea of rational thought and culture, a reflection that he considered to be an urgent necessity in light of the political, social, and intellectual crisis of the interwar period. In this book, James Dodd pursues an interpretation of Husserl's text that emphasizes the importance of the problem of the origin of philosophy, as well as advances the thesis that, for Husserl, the "crisis of reason" is not a contingent historical event, but a permanent feature of a life in reason generally.


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Beyond Mimesis and Convention : Representation in Art and Science
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ISBN: 9789048138500 9789048138517 9789048138531 9789400732155 9048138507 9048138515 1280002689 9786613002969 9048138531 9400732155 Year: 2010 Volume: 262 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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Representation is a concern crucial to the sciences and the arts alike. Scientists devote substantial time to devising and exploring representations of all kinds. From photographs and computer-generated images to diagrams, charts, and graphs; from scale models to abstract theories, representations are ubiquitous in, and central to, science. Likewise, after spending much of the twentieth century in proverbial exile as abstraction and Formalist aesthetics reigned supreme, representation has returned with a vengeance to contemporary visual art. Representational photography, video and ever-evolving forms of new media now figure prominently in the globalized art world, while this "return of the real" has re-energized problems of representation in the traditional media of painting and sculpture. If it ever really left, representation in the arts is certainly back. Central as they are to science and art, these representational concerns have been perceived as different in kind and as objects of separate intellectual traditions. Scientific modeling and theorizing have been topics of heated debate in twentieth century philosophy of science in the analytic tradition, while representation of the real and ideal has never moved far from the core humanist concerns of historians of Western art. Yet, both of these traditions have recently arrived at a similar impasse. Thinking about representation has polarized into oppositions between mimesis and convention. Advocates of mimesis understand some notion of mimicry (or similarity, resemblance or imitation) as the core of representation: something represents something else if, and only if, the former mimics the latter in some relevant way. Such mimetic views stand in stark contrast to conventionalist accounts of representation, which see voluntary and arbitrary stipulation as the core of representation. Occasional exceptions only serve to prove the rule that mimesis and convention govern current thinking about representation in both analytic philosophy of science and studies of visual art. This conjunction can hardly be dismissed as a matter of mere coincidence. In fact, researchers in philosophy of science and the history of art have increasingly found themselves trespassing into the domain of the other community, pilfering ideas and approaches to representation. Cognizant of the limitations of the accounts of representation available within the field, philosophers of science have begun to look outward toward the rich traditions of thinking about representation in the visual and literary arts. Simultaneously, scholars in art history and affiliated fields like visual studies have come to see images generated in scientific contexts as not merely interesting illustrations derived from "high art", but as sophisticated visualization techniques that dynamically challenge our received conceptions of representation and aesthetics. "Beyond Mimesis and Convention: Representation in Art and Science" is motivated by the conviction that we students of the sciences and arts are best served by confronting our mutual impasse and by recognizing the shared concerns that have necessitated our covert acts of kleptomania. Drawing leading contributors from the philosophy of science, the philosophy of literature, art history and visual studies, our volume takes its brief from our title. That is, these essays aim to put the evidence of science and of art to work in thinking about representation by offering third (or fourth, or fifth) ways beyond mimesis and convention. In so doing, our contributors explore a range of topics-fictionalism, exemplification, neuroaesthetics, approximate truth-that build upon and depart from ongoing conversations in philosophy of science and studies of visual art in ways that will be of interest to both interpretive communities. To put these contributions into context, the remainder of this introduction aims to survey how our communities have discretely arrived at a place wherein the perhaps-surprising collaboration between philosophy of science and art history has become not only salubrious, but a matter of necessity. .


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German Idealism and the Problem of Knowledge : Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel
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ISBN: 9781402087998 9781402088001 1402087993 9048179912 1402088000 Year: 2008 Volume: 8 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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Examines the evolution of the German idealist discussion with respect to an array of concepts. Emphasizing the unity between the logical and the historical, the distinction between intellectual and rational explanation, and the cognitive importance of contradiction, this book argues for the prospect of an evolving totality of reflective reason.

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Philosophy. --- History of Philosophy. --- Modern Philosophy. --- Philosophy of Mind. --- Epistemology. --- Logic. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Philosophy (General). --- Genetic epistemology. --- Philosophy, modern. --- Philosophy of mind. --- Science --- Epistémologie génétique --- Logique --- Philosophie de l'esprit --- Sciences --- Philosophie --- Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 1762-1814 -- Contributions in theory of knowledge. --- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 -- Contributions in theory of knowledge. --- Idealism, German. --- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 -- Contributions in theory of knowledge. --- Knowledge, Theory of -- Germany. --- Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854 -- Contributions in theory of knowledge. --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Kant, Immanuel, --- Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, --- Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, --- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- German idealism --- Fichte, J. G. --- Fei-hsi-tê, --- Fikhte, Iogann Gotlib, --- Pʻixte, I. G., --- Fikhte, Ĭokhan Gotlib, --- Fichte, Iohann Gottlieb, --- Fikhṭeh, Yohan G. --- Fichte, Giovanni Amedeo, --- Fichte, G. Amedeo --- Fihite, --- פיכטה, יוהאן גוטליב, --- פיכטה, יוהאן ג. --- 费希特, --- Kant, Emmanuel --- Hēgeru, --- Hei-ko-erh, --- Gegelʹ, Georg, --- Hījil, --- Khegel, --- Hegel, G. W. F. --- Hegel, --- Hei Ge Er, --- Chenkel, --- Hīghil, --- הגל, --- הגל, גאורג וילהלם פרידריך, --- הגל, גיאורג וילהלם פרידריך, --- הגל, ג.ו.פ, --- היגל, גורג ווילהלם פרדריך, --- היגל, גיורג וילהלם פרידריך, --- 黑格尔, --- Hegel, Guillermo Federico, --- Hegel, Jorge Guillermo Federico, --- Heyel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, --- Higil, Gʼūrg Vīlhim Frīdrīsh, --- ‏هگل, --- ‏هگل، گئورگ ويلهم فريدريش, --- Shelling, Fridrikh Vilʹgelʹm, --- Schelling, F. W. J. --- Sheling, F., --- שלינג, י.פ.וו., --- שלינג, פ. --- 谢林, --- Kant, Emanuel --- Kant, Emanuele --- Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von --- Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph --- Schelling, Federico Guillermo José --- Modern philosophy. --- Philosophy and science. --- Psychology --- Hegel, Giorgio Guglielmo Frederico --- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Argumentation --- Deduction (Logic) --- Deductive logic --- Dialectic (Logic) --- Logic, Deductive --- Intellect --- Reasoning --- Thought and thinking --- Developmental psychology --- Mind, Philosophy of --- Mind, Theory of --- Theory of mind --- Cognitive science --- Metaphysics --- Philosophical anthropology --- Modern philosophy --- Methodology --- Science and philosophy --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Philosophy—History. --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Science—Philosophy. --- Early Modern Philosophy.

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