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Primary bibliography of the Philosophical works of Eugene T. Gendlin Complete Primary bibliography of Eugene T. Gendlin After Postmodernism Conference 1997 Autobiography: Phenomenology as Non-Logical Steps
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Philosophy of the Implicit Articles on this Website
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Gendlin proposes experiential concepts as bridges between phenomenology and logical formulation. His method moves back and forth, aiming to increase both natural understanding and logical formulation. On the subjective side, the concepts require direct reference to felt or implicit meaning. There is no equivalence between this and the logical side. Rather, in logical "explanation", the implicit is carried forward, a relation shown by many functions. The subjective is no inner parallel. It performs specific functions in language. Once these are located, they also lead to developments on the formulated side. To show some of this, Gendlin modifies Lakoff and Johnson's theory of metaphor, and expands it into a theory of all language use. He denies that a metaphor consists of a pattern or image, shared by two situations. There is only one situation - the metaphoric one. The original situation is actually a family of many uses (in the Wittgensteinian sense). As in all speech, a word makes sense only as its use-family "crosses" with an actual situation in the actual spot in a sentence. Subjectively, a metaphor means this crossing. From it, long chains of new similarities and differences can be generated. Ways to study the functions and features of this crossing are proposed. A new philosophical model makes particles and information at single points derivative. Space-time grids are not events but only ideal comparisons made by observers. Therefore the identity of space-time points and also of single particles is inherently a speculative assumption. The conservation of units can be derived and is not a foundation for events. An interaction is an actual change and can determine changed particles and a changed space-time grid from itself, both forward and backward in time. In contrast, relativity theory still retains the classical unit model in which information is localized at single points, merely positing more than one observer. One implication of the new model is that quantomechanical solutions need not be limited by the requirements of relativity as is currently done. The model correctly predicts where difficulties should be found, and relates and explains many puzzles which are otherwise separated and inexplicable. Gendlin talks informally about how thinking and the ongoing flow of bodily experience inform each other, then takes questions from the audience. (Tape is available for purchase in our bookstore, and click here to see the transcript of this talk)
Language Process Notes by Harbert Rice Worüber man nicht sprechen kann, darüber kann man sprechen lernen: ein Vergleich zwischen Jacob Böhme und Gene Gendlin, Donata Schoeller [Word Doc] Thinking Changes Stanley Cavell and Eugene Gendlin by Donata Schoeller [Word Doc] This page was last modified on 05 Jun 2008 |
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