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• Constituting vs Instituting Subject

  The paradigm-shift thesis that Merleau-Ponty's 1954–55 institution-concept marks not an internal development of Husserlian Stiftung but a near-antagonist of the constituting subject of Husserlian-Cartesian transcendental phenomenology. The…

• Felipe León

  Phenomenologist working at the intersection of philosophy of mind, social philosophy, and Merleau-Ponty scholarship. Author of chapter 9 of Merleau-Ponty: Institution-Ontology-Politics (Brill 2026), the volume's third-part opening chapter…

• Gilbert Ryle

  British analytic philosopher (1900–1976), professor of metaphysical philosophy at Oxford (1945–68), editor of Mind. Author of The Concept of Mind (1949), the foundational text of mid-century philosophical behaviourism / dispositionalism, a…

• Intentionality

  The founding doctrine of Investigation V (husserl-1901-logical-investigations-vol2): consciousness, in the sense that matters to phenomenology, is a class of experiences — acts, "intentional experiences" — whose descriptive essence is dire…

• James J. Gibson

  American psychologist (1904–1979), founder of ecological psychology. His The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1986; first edition 1979) develops the theory of perception as direct pickup of structural information from the optic ar…

• Kazimierz Twardowski

  Polish philosopher (1866–1938), student of franz-brentano, founder of the Lwów–Warsaw school. His Zur Lehre vom Inhalt und Gegenstand der Vorstellungen (1894) — the content/object distinction within every presentation — is the proximate Br…

• Love as a Formative Category

  Simmel's thesis in On Love (a fragment) (1923): love is one of the great formative categories of existence, joining the object of knowledge, the object of faith, and the object of valuation as a fundamental category of the subject-world re…

• Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Austrian-British philosopher (1889–1951). His later work — Philosophical Investigations (1953/2003), Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology (1980, Vols. 1–2) — engages problems of perception, depiction, aspect-seeing, and the relation bet…

• Maine de Biran

  French philosopher (1766–1824) of the body's motor-evidence and of the fait primitif. Author of the Essai sur les fondements de la psychologie et sur ses rapports avec l'étude de la nature. Per Saint Aubert (2006 Ch II §2), Biran is a card…

• Soul as Subject-Multiplicity

  Nietzsche's constructive critique of the subject in Beyond Good and Evil: the "I" of "I think" is a grammatical fiction, but the right response is not to abolish the soul — it is to re-engineer it as a plurality. §12 is decisive: the Chris…

• The Tripartite Soul

  Plato's division of the soul into three parts — the rational (logistikon), the spirited (thumoeides), and the appetitive (epithumētikon) — argued in Republic IV (435a–441c) and used to define justice as psychic order. Its engine is the pri…

• Transcendental Apperception (Kant / Hegel)

  The transcendental unity of apperception — Kant's "I think" that must be able to accompany all my representations (Critique of Pure Reason B132) — is, for Kant, the highest principle of the understanding's a-priori synthesis of intuitions.…

• Vincent Descombes

  French philosopher (b. 1943) working in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and social philosophy. Major works include L'inconscient malgré lui (1977), Grammaire d'objets en tous genres (1983), Les institutions du sens (The Institu…

• Weight of Thought (Nancy)

  Nancy's name (in The Gravity of Thought and "The Heart of Things") for the structural fact that thought is itself a material event: thought weighs (active sense — ascertains weight, ponders) because it has weight (passive sense — exerts pr…

• Œuvres II (Pléiade) Paul Valéry, 1960

  Author(s): Paul Valéry (1871–1945) Year: 1960 (Pléiade composite; constituent works span 1894–1946) Type: book (Pléiade composite volume of dialogues, Cahier recueils, prose pieces, and essays) Editor: Jean Hytier Edition: Bibliothèque de…