Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy

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abduction, 5 abstraction: vs. experience, 8–9; explanation as, 49; object as, 23, 73, 194–95; and sensation fallacy , 65 ageing, 120, 162 alterity: Descartes on, 102–103; experience and, 101–12; Merleau-Ponty on, 103–12, 121–23; ontology and, 112–23; Sartre on, 104–106 ambiguity, 61–63 analogical judgment solution, 103–104 analysis: Aristotle and, 45, 47, 73, 76; limit of, 45– 49; in mathematics, 156–57 animals: and the ethical, 118–19; as Others, 109; sensory systems of, 77 appearance, subjective, 37–38, 44 Aquinas, 12–13 Aristotle: analytic method of, 45, 47, 73, 76; Descartes and, 11–13; and difference, 142; on language , 174, 185; and phenomenology, 8–9; and representation theory, 3, 10; on ontology of substantial forms, 14–15, 20, 73, 139, 194; on virtue , 71 Augustine, 126 Bartky, Sandra Lee: on the body, 94–95 Becoming, 196 Beeckman, Isaac, 12 Begriff (Notion), 113 behavior, 106–109, 182 behaviorism, 75, 80, 83, 85, 100 being: and flesh, 139–40; as ground, 197–98; vs. non-being, 129–30; perfect, 20–21; self and, 120; “wild,” 126, 128–29, 141, 144 Being and Nothingness (Sartre), 104–105, 110, 129–30 Berkeley, George: and other minds, 103; and representation theory, 24 Bernasconi, Robert, 115 biological vs. personal spheres, 86–91 bodies: images of, 85–88, 94–96, 218n22; imprinted by history, 91–94; and language, 182–83; living, 78–79; as machines, 21, 75, 79–85, 182; as objects, 105; and perception, 16; as possessive, 115–16; and self, 73–76, 79; in symbiosis, 59–63; and synergy, 36–37; and things, 59–60, 63; and world, 77–78 Bodies That Matter (Butler), 95 Body Images: Embodiment and Intercorporeality (Weiss), 95 Buddhism, 8 Butler, Judith: on the body, 95, 220n30 carnality, 36, 59–60, 98, 121, 137–40 Carnap, Rudolf: on mathematical statements, 156; and representation theory, 24; and sensedata , 29 Cartesian Theater, 11, 19, 22, 27, 37, 54 “Child’s Relations with Others, The” (MerleauPonty ), 102 Churchland, Paul M., 41–42 Clark, Andy, 84 cogito, the: and expression, 148–49; as foundational , 14–15, 17, 40, 208n15; as illusion, 161–63, 178–79, 233n16 cognition: expressive, 3–4; re-conceiving, 3; and representation theory, 10 color, 14, 30, 63–70, 79, 214nn8,9 consciousness: and emotions, 89; evolution of, 119; neurophysiological accounts of, 42–44; as non-being, 129–30; philosophy of, 124; separate from world, 12 Consciousness and the Acquisition of Language (Merleau-Ponty), 188 conversation, 181 coupling, 107–108, 114, 117, 222n11 Course in General Linguistics, The (Saussure), 183 Cratylus (Plato), 174–75 creativity, 3–4, 151–53, 169, 196, 198 Critique of Judgment (Kant), 161–62 Curry, Haskell B., 157–58 Darwin, Charles, 119 De Anima (Aristotle), 76 Index Italicized page numbers refer to illustrations. 250 Index deconstruction: and alterity, 112; and expression, 168; vs. phenomenology, 5 dehiscence. See écart Deleuze, Gilles: on expression, 141–43, 168; and Merleau-Ponty, 2, 136, 229n32, 235n34 Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari: and flesh concept, 138, 140–41, 144; on language, 239n36 Dennett, Daniel: on directedness, 81–82; and Merleau-Ponty, 1, 207n8, 232n15; on qualia, 41–42 Derrida, Jacques: on alterity, 112; and écart, 134– 37; and Husserl, 167–68; on language, 172, 192, 228n20; and Merleau-Ponty, 2, 135 Descartes, René: and alterity, 102–103; on the body, 79–80; and Dualism, 15, 79; fallacies in, 100; vs. Merleau-Ponty, 10, 19, 35–36, 100– 101, 148–49; and mind/body problem, 74–75; and phenomenology, 8–9; and representation theory, 11–25; on sensation, 21, 26–27; and subjectivism , 7, 8, 19; theology of, 12–13, 20–23; wax argument of, 15–19, 40 desire, problem of, 97–99, 221n46 Dewey, John: on reflex arc, 80 diacritical theory of meaning, 184–89 difference, 130–32, 134, 197–98 Difference and Repetition (Deleuze), 141–43 différance, 112, 134–37, 182 “Différance” (Derrida), 134–36 directedness, 81–82 “divided line” model, 147, 194, 197, 198 doubt, 16, 39–41 dualism: dissolving, 79; vs. écart, 111; language of, 15, 22, 28–29, 35–36; ontology of, 40; and physicalists , 43–44 dualistic binaries: external/internal world, 15, 19, 24; mind/body, 4, 22–23, 74–75; subject/object, 105–106, 108, 127, 165–66; visible/invisible, 194 dyslexia, 48–50 écart (irreducible difference): and difference, 130–32, 134, 197–98; vs. différance, 134–37; in later transformation of thinking, 123, 125; and others, 111; and reversibility, 132–34; Saussure and...