Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) was a French philosopher and phenomenologist. He continues to be credited as the most influential figure in the development of a philosophical understanding of the importance of the body and corporeality.
His most central work in this regard is The Phenomenology of Perception. Through a phenomenological examination of perception, Merleau-Ponty argued for [...]
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Monday Profile: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Posted in Epistemology, Existentialism, Monday Profile, Perception, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, philosophy, tagged bodily perception, body-subject, cartesianism, cogito, conception, Descartes, developmental psychology, empiricism, idealism, intellectualism, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Merleau-Ponty, Mind, mind and body, Perception, Phenomenology, phenomenology of perception, philosophy, Psychology, subject and object on December 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Monday Profile: Donna Haraway
Posted in Anthropology, Biological Sciences, Epistemology, Feminist Thought, Monday Profile, Perception, philosophy, tagged biology, cyberculture, cyborg manifesto, cyborgs, Donna Haraway, embodiment, Epistemology, essentialism, feminism, feminist epistemology, gender, history of consciousness, Perception, philosophy, primatology, race, situated knowledge, subject and object, vision, zoology on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Donna Haraway is currently a professor of the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She began her career studying Zoology and Philosophy, and eventually earned her Ph.D. in Biology from Yale in 1972.
Haraway’s most central contribution to the study of embodiment comes at an intersection between [...]
