What brings together Henri Bergson's Matter and Memory and JeanPaul Sartre's Imagination and The Psychology of Imagination is the question of the ontology of the image. Bergson attempts to use the image to bridge the gap between mind and matter by refusing to distinguish clearly between what he calls “matter-images,” “perception-images,” and “memory-images.” By defining both consciousness and t...

I What can phenomenology tell us about the feelings and emotions? Many things, apparently, since there are any number of very different views advanced by phenomenologists as diverse as Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, Scheler, Sartre, and so forth. This paper shall sketch a phenomenological view indebted most directly to Husserl. My concern, however, is not to expound Husserl's views but to supple...

I was very much interested in the article by Rom and Ansbacher entitled "An Adlerian Case or a Character by Sartre?" (4) not only because of its intrinsic value but also because I had myself analyzed the hero of Sartre's story "Erostratus" (5, pp. 41-58) and others of this author's characters from the angle of Adler's Individual Psychology some I 5 years ago (6, 7). Before quoting from this ana...

Introduction Philosophy and psychoanalysis have mutually influenced each other in many ways. Ancient Greek philosophers, Socrates Plato were frequently cited by Freud his works the origins of certain psychoanalytic concepts can be found their works. The philosophical Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Husserl, Sartre others had a significant impact on development ideas. intersection phil...

Sartre (1956) describes ways in which one may present oneself to others as being a certain sort of person. In one of his examples, a waiter presents himself as a waiter by as it were acting the part of a waiter. More generally, Sartre argues that, wanting to be, or at least to appear to others to be, a person of a certain sort or character, one often acts the part of a person of that sort of ch...

In previous papers we have presented our autonomous poker playing agent (SARTRE) that uses a memory-based approach to create a betting strategy for two-player, limit Texas Hold’em. SARTRE participated in the 2009 IJCAI Computer Poker Competition where the system was thoroughly evaluated by challenging a range of other computerised opponents. Since the competition SARTRE has undergone case-based...

RESUMEN. Aunque pocos comentarios repararan en ella, la pregunta por conciencia y su relación con el mundo moral está presente Murdoch desde sus primeros escritos reaparece fuerza Metaphysics as a guide to morals. La crítica moderna de metafísica, idea cartesiana alma como sustancia, nos deja sin imágenes metafísicas para concepción sentido común del yo individual un centro moral. ¿Cómo pensarl...