Although Merleau-Ponty’s privileging of Cézanne in the context his philosophy painting does not explicitly address painter’s relation to literature, this is important and somewhat problematic. was an avid reader both classical Latin contemporary French but he sought, maturity, dissociate from inspiration literature. The danger a mode figurative informed by literature explored Balzac’s novella U...

With its historical roots in the phenomenological perspective of philosophers such as Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, embodied cognition has been able to address classically problematic issues in cognitive science. In this paper I examine the model of visual consciousness put forth by Alva Noë and J. Kevin O’Regan, and the model of learning and skill acquisition put forth by Hubert Dr...

The research focuses on designing for perceptive qualities in artefacts and is inspired by and grounded in the phenomenology of perception (Merleau-Ponty, 1958) and ecological psychology (Gibson, 1986). Both bring forward the ‘active nature of perception’1 and argue that ‘the body is the centre point of perception’2. This body that enables us to sense the world is here considered an active and ...