The theme of this book is the deep continuity of life and mind. Where there is life there is mind, and mind in its most articulated forms belongs to life. Life and mind share a core set of formal or organizational properties, and the formal or organizational properties distinctive of mind are an enriched version of those fundamental to life. I take a twofold approach to these ideas in Mind in L...

The category "organism" has an ambiguous status: is it scientific or is it philosophical? Or, if one looks at it from within the relatively recent field or sub-field of philosophy of biology, is it a central, or at least legitimate category therein, or should it be dispensed with? In any case, it has long served as a kind of scientific bolstering for a philosophical train of argument which seek...

Nature appears in Merleau-Ponty’s early texts more as a context for a phenomenology of embodied existence than as a topic of interest in its own right.1 Since the philosopher became intensely interested in nature only from 1955 or 1956 on, one might think that an exploration of the earlier phenomenology of perception and behavior constitutes a digression from the later “new” ontology. Yet there...

The study of time, space and movement as constituent art elements was a focus attention avant-garde artists. theatre where events unfold both in time became place consolidation Ukrainian artists, with the synergistic association representatives various branches movements. A scenographic sketch, that is, two-dimensional realisation idea future four-dimensional work, is unique phenomenon to evolu...

Aron Gurwitsch is usually considered as a minor figure within what Herbert Spiegelberg has called “The Phenomenological Movement”; his theory of the field consciousness, however, played great influence on philosophies Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty probably one most radical versions non-egological consciousness. It not by chance that Gurwitsch’s phenomenology explicitely borders wit...

This article investigates the nature of perceptual and actual spaces created occupied by painting. The focus is on two artistic projects taken up author that incorporate sculptural elements site-specific explorations to create a series work. body work retains characteristics unique These are situated against background similar trend in contemporary painting sees many painters taking their paint...

Situated Action, the newest approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI), is in need of a coherent theoretical foundation both to support it and to unify its proponents. To that end, we believe that the work Merleau-Ponty wilt prove invaluable. In the past, Heideggcr’s work has been referred to from time to time in Situated Action literature. Hoxvever, we believe that Merleau-Ponty’s work is better...

Merleau-Ponty begins the Phenomenology of Perception by explaining that phenomenology aims to uncover our primitive contact with the world (vi), and so may give us an account of space as it is lived. While appreciative of scientific explorations of the world and space, Merleau-Ponty asserts that all knowledge garnered from scientific inquiry is originally “gained through [one’s] own particular ...

The fundamental significance of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of space in his early masterpiece, Phenomenology of Perception (hereafter referred as PhP), has been largely underestimated, if not completely ignored, in the literature of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy. This underestimation can be traced back to the received view that space problem is not the primary theme of PhP, but only a touchstone...