3.(Philosophy) any of a group of philosophical doctrines that share the monistic view that material objects and the external world do not exist in reality independently of the human mind but are variously creations of the mind or constructs of ideas. Comparematerialism2,dualism2 ...
idealism - (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality intuitionism - (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by intuition logicism - (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all of mathematics can be derived from formal logic physicalism, materialism...
The analysis presented goes beyond the usual treatments of aesthetics and anthropology that focus on the sensory or corporeal. Here the connection is seen to turn on an aspect of anthropology's holism, namely what is identified as its antipathy to separation, and to the ideas about methodology ...
contribution to aesthetics, in his Aesthetical Letters. In these letters he remarks that beauty is the work of free contemplation, and we enter with it into the world of ideas, but ...
Edmund Burke's "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many writers have taken up their pen to write of 'the beautiful', Burke's subject here was the quality he uniquely ...
Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge These obsessions have important social and philosophical origins, and they raise profound questions about the very nature of knowledge and its organization. This volume's contributors draw on the histories of maps and of encyclopedias, ... S Schaffer,J Tresch,P Gag...
Recommended Reading: Maurice Merleau-Ponty,Structure of Behavior(Duquesne, 1983);The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting, ed. by Galen A. Johnson and Michael B. Smith (Northwestern, 1994); Gary Brent Madison,The Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty: A Search for the Limits of Cons...
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Aesthetics: beauty, art, taste, and the nature of aesthetic experience. Existentialism: the meaning of life, freedom, and human existence. The Philosophy of Mind: consciousness, perception, mental states, and the relationship between the mind and the body. The Philosophy of Science: scientific met...
In a previous discussion of borders I concentrated on the necessarily limited goal of sketching a history of the definitional fixation of visual modernism and the avant-garde with the material and discursive production of always-bordered or ever-transgre