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"Emmanuel Levinas a renouvele´ en profondeur la philosophie, qu'il s'agisse de la de´finition de la subjectivite´ par la responsabilite´, des implications politiques de cette conception du sujet ou de son insistance sur la corpore´ite´, pense´e comme vulne´rabilite´ ou associe´e a` une phe´nome´nologie du « vivre de » et des nourritures. Dans un se´minaire qui s'adressait a` des e´tudiants en philosophie et a` des soignants, Corine Pelluchon donne les clefs pour comprendre cette œuvre exigeante et communique une expe´rience de pense´e lie´e a` la manie`re dont la re´flexion et le style de Levinas l'ont bouleverse´e. Elle montre en quel sens il a inspire´ ses propres travaux, qui prolongent et parfois discutent ses the`ses, soulignant aussi l'actualite´ de Levinas, y compris lorsqu'on s'inte´resse a` des sujets sur lesquels il ne s'est pas exprime´, comme la me´decine, l'e´cologie et le rapport aux animaux."--Page 4 of cover.

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Why does a magnet attract iron? Why does a compass needle point north? Although the magnet or lodestone was known since antiquity, magnetism only became an important topic in natural science and technology in the early modern period. In Magnes Christoph Sander explores this fascinating subject and draws, for the first time, a comprehensive picture of early modern research on magnetism (c. 1500–1650). Covering all disciplines of this period, Magnes examines what scholars understood by ‘magnet’ and ‘magnetism,’ which properties they ascribed to it, in which instruments and practices magnetism was employed, and how they tried to explain this exciting phenomenon. This historical panorama is based on circa 1500 historical sources, including over 100 manuscripts.

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Phenomenology. --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Modern philosophy --- Philosophy, Modern --- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice,

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This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise and accessible introduction to phenomenology, a philosophical movement that investigates the experience of experience. Founded by Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) and expounded by Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and others, phenomenology ventures forth into the field of experience so that truth might be met in the flesh. It investigates everything as experienced. It does not study mere appearance but the true appearances of things, holding that the unfolding of experience allows us to sort true appearances from mere appearance. The book unpacks a series of terms--world, flesh, speech, life, truth, love, and wonder--all of which are bound up with each other in experience. For example, world is where experience takes place; flesh names the way our experiential exploration is inscribed into the bearings of our bodily being; speech is instituted in bodily presence; truth concerns the way our claims about things are confirmed by our experience. A chapter on the phenomenological method describes it as a means of clarifying the modality of experience that is written into its very fabric; and a chapter on the phenomenological movement bridges its divisions while responding to criticisms from analytic philosophy and postmodernism.

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In 1688 the Irish scientist and politician William Molyneux sent a letter to the philosopher John Locke. In it, he asked him a question: could someone who was born blind, and able to distinguish a globe and a cube by touch, be able to immediately distinguish and name these shapes by sight if given the ability to see? The philosophical puzzle offered in Molyneux's letter fascinated not only Locke, but major thinkers such as Leibniz, Berkeley, Diderot, Reid, and numerous others including psychologists and cognitive scientists today. Does such a question represent a philosophical puzzle or a problem that can be solved by experimental tests? Can vision be fully restored after blindness? What is the relation between vision and touch? Are the senses linked through learning or bound at birth? Molyneux's Question and the History of Philosophy is a major collection of essays that explore the long-standing issues Molyneux's problem presents to philosophy of mind, perception and the senses. In addition, the volume considers the question from an interdisciplinary angle, examines the pre-history of the question, and aspects of it that have been ignored, such as perspectives from religion and disability. As such, Molyneux's Question and the History of Philosophy presents a set of philosophically rich, empirically informed, and scientifically rigorous original investigations into this famous puzzle. It will be of great interest to students and researchers in philosophy, psychology, and the cognitive sciences including neuroscience, neurobiology and ophthalmology, as well as those studying the mind, perception and the senses.

Perception (Philosophy) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Visual perception --- Touch --- History. --- Molyneux, William,