The Living Transcendental — An Integrationist View of Naturalized Phenomenology

Nature’s Dark Domain: an Argument for a Naturalized Phenomenology

In what follows, I take naturalism to be a methodological prescription about how philosophical theories should relate to other branches of enquiry. Methodological naturalists urge that philosophical claims should a) be informed and constrained by the best scientific and empirical knowledge and b) should eschew claims about sources of information not so informed or constrained. In a naturalized ...

PSYCHE: http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/ The Transcendental Significance of Phenomenology

There is a well-known line of thought, associated with Donald Davidson, that connects the notion of a perceptual given—of non-linguistic or non-conceptual experience of the world—with skepticism. Against this, I argue that the notion of what is given in perception leads to skepticism only on certain interpretations. I argue, in fact, that there must be perceptual experience such that there is “...

Empirical Thought Experiments: A Transcendental-Operational View

The operational perspective here defended permits a reflexive-transcendental point of view that sharply distinguishes the two concepts, while, at the same time, maintaining the connection between them. On the one hand, simply imagining that the experimental apparatus, counterfactually anticipated in a thought experiment, has really been constructed is sufficient to erase any difference between ...

A Transcendental View of the Space of Algebraic Riemann Surfaces

The subject of my lecture is not a large-scale and general theory but rather a special problem in conformai mapping. By way of justification for bringing it to the attention of a broader audience I may cite, first of all, its deep nature and honorable origin—the problem originated in Riemann's memoir [46] of 1857 on algebraic functions, and after the passage of a century some definitive insight...

Knowledge Integration Reconceptualized from an Integrationist Perspective