Toward Existential Phenomenology from Structual-functionalism in Approaching Family Problems

Synaesthesia, Functionalism and Phenomenology

Functionalism and The Independence Problems

The independence problems for functionalism stem from the worry that functional properties that are defined in terms of their causes and effects are not sufficiently independent of those purported causes and effects. I distinguish three different ways the independence problems can be filled out—in terms of necessary connections, conceptual connections and vacuous explanations. I argue that none...

Heroism and history in Merleau-Ponty’s existential phenomenology

Whereas Phenomenology of Perception concludes with a puzzling turn to ‘‘heroism,’’ this article examines the short essay ‘‘Man, the Hero’’ as a source of insight into Merleau-Ponty’s thought in the early postwar period. In this essay, Merleau-Ponty presented a conception of heroism through which he expressed the attitude toward post-Hegelian philosophy of history that underwrote his efforts to ...

EXISTENTIAL TRENDS TOWARD INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGYl

Several attempts have been made to compare Adler's Individual Psychology to existentialism or existential analysis (e. g., 22, 28). Dreikurs (9) isolates several tenets from Adlerian psychology and finds a model that includes all the characteristic assumptions of existential analysis which made their impact felt in America. Van Dusen (27) reports fundamental similarities in Individual Psycholog...

Toward a Cultural Phenomenology of Personal Identity

HOwdoes our inherited world of meaning relate to our fundamental experience of ourselves as persons? Is there a core of self-consciousness that is sequestered from the constitutive reach of culture and language? Can we speak of an unmediated basis for personal identity? These are the questions I will explore in this chapter. My method will be analytic, not comparative or ethnographic. Psycholog...