In this paper I examine compatibilism and incompatibilism about whether the self can be both a subject an object in same awareness at time. While is old debate that many traditions of philosophy have contributed to, my point departure work A.C. Mukerji (an Indian philosopher modern era) who worked on possibility self-awareness by articulating, what he called, paradox ego-centricity. also consid...

Swimming, like reading, is an immersive activity: words wash away, and arise. Engaging with writings by critics who are also swimmers, principally John Berger Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this article explores their about swimming in relation to how being water can ‘conjure stories from the water’, open up particular kinds of reflection reverie. The fluidity spaces creates imaginary that enables inte...

This paper explores a phenomenological approach to the video game medium, in order to argue that realism in video games is dependent on the player’s embodied experience of play as opposed to mimetic representation. My paper discusses the relation of the player, and specifically the player’s body, to the idea of realism in video games. Chris Crawford wrote in 1982 that “games represent a subset ...

What is the influence of music on brain? And in what cases can this cause dysfunctioning? Among different examples analyzed by Oliver Sacks, one particularly significant: phenomenon synesthesia. Synesthesia connected to having an extra that associates kinds sensory information, music, and color. It sometimes transform hearing as a painful experience, transforming it into pure literal meaning – ...

Pyrin lähestymään artikkelissani Georges Didi-Hubermanin materiaalisuuksia koskevaa ajattelua ottaen lähtökohdaksi Immanuel Kantin esikriittisen negatiivisia suureita koskevan tutkielman (1783) sekä Gilles Deleuzen teokset Bergsonisme (1966), Différence et répétition (1968) ja Le Pli. Leibniz le baroque (1988). Viittaan myös Maurice Merleau-Pontyn Visible l'invisible -teoksessaan (1964) esittäm...

O intuito do presente artigo é apresentar uma introdução e análise contextual da obra de Maurice Merleau-Ponty, através conceito central corpo ser encarnado – suas consequências em relação à manifestação fenomenológica sobre a concepção unidade sintética Ser-no-mundo compreensão percepção como núcleo entendimento existencial: ponto contato interioridade sua no mundo. A abordagem visa contextual...