Sökning: "Theoretical philosophy"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 442 avhandlingar innehållade orden Theoretical philosophy.
16. A Multiform Desire : A Study of Appetite in Plato’s Timaeus, Republic and Phaedrus
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of appetite in Plato’s Timaeus, Republic and Phaedrus. In recent research is it often suggested that Plato considers appetite (i) to pertain to the essential needs of the body, (ii) to relate to a distinct set of objects, e.g. food or drink, and (iii) to cause behaviour aiming at sensory pleasure. LÄS MER
17. Enigmatic origins : tracing the theme of historicity through Heidegger's works
Sammanfattning : The preoccupation with the "historicity" of thought and existence is central to thehermeneutic-phenomenological branch of modern philosophy. Its foremostrepresentative is Martin Heidegger, who in his main work Sein und Zeit (1927)developed a theory of historicity, according to which human beings not only exist inhistory, but are themselves historical. LÄS MER
18. The Normativity of Thought and Meaning
Sammanfattning : In recent years the normativity of thought and meaning has been the subject of an extensive debate. What is at issue is whether intentionality has normative features, and if so, whether that constitutes a problem for naturalistic attempts to account for intentional phenomena. LÄS MER
19. Towards a Phenomenology of Repression - a Husserlian Reply to the Freudian Challenge
Sammanfattning : This is the first book-length philosophical study of Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology and Freud’s theory of the unconscious. The book investigates the possibility for Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology to clarify Freud’s concept of the unconscious with a focus on the theory of repression as its centre. LÄS MER
20. The Signified World : The Problem of Occasionality in Husserl's Phenomenology of Meaning
Sammanfattning : This study offers the first comprehensive account of the problem of situation-dependence and facticity in Husserl's phenomenology of meaning. On the basis of a reconsideration of the central ideas of Husserl's phenomenological approach to meaning and intentionality, it presents a reconstruction and assessment of Husserl's revised conception of empirical meaning. LÄS MER