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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Solipsism"”.
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Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands
In this dissertation I examine through a close reading of J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands (1974) the textual dymamic that impels the two narrator-protagonists toward the solipsist position - the ground of the true Cartesian. I show how Eugene Dawn and Jacobus Coetzee are presented as products of Western …
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Pragmatic Epistemology, Community, and the Problem of Solipsism
… Specifically, I look closely at the problem of solipsism and examine whether pragmatists have the resources for responding to this problem successfully. It is my hope that by undertaking this project we will obtain a clearer picture of pragmatic epistemology and some of the strengths in …
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Planning accidents and pointing at them : translation and "the truth of solipsism"
All the things that drive me as an artist are about the same question. It is a question that may be asked in different ways. I want to know how I am already a part of the world. I want to know if when I look at the world it is the same thing others see. I want to discover why it is not possible for …
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The Solipsism of Daily Experience and the Unequal Body: The Social Construction of Ableness
… everyday objects. I argue that this able-bodied solipsism is heightened in advanced industrial societies where discourses and practices created by Human-Factors Engineering compile knowledge based on the assumption that the able body is the norm. This knowledge is then employed in the fabrication …
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Princeton Theory's Problematics
… notions from experimentalism to experience, solipsism to ethics. Initially a formalist project, Princeton Theory in the early 1970's underwent an under-discussed Turn toward experimentalism, seemingly rejecting its earlier high-modernist orientation. The dissertation situates this Turn as an …
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Alcoholics Polyphonous: Wittgenstein's Linguistic Philosophy in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
… antidote to the epistemological and existential solipsism entailed by the private referential or mentalistic paradigm of language, while the fourth concludes with a look at the formal implications of Wallace's use of Wittgenstein for what has already been rather unfortunately termed the nascent …
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An investigation of the nature and role of historicality in the thought of Dilthey and Heidegger
… 'reality' to the historical age thus overcoming solipsism by encasing individual human experience within the historical horizon of the age. This however does nothing to address the epistemological concern over the discoverablity of truth. Heidegger, on the other hand, rejects a metaphysical …
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Communication in the Ruins: Walker Percy and the Art of Symbolic Mediation
… instead of existence, leading to alienation and solipsism. The fourth and final chapter investigates the means for escaping from symbolically induced alienation and, paradoxically, makes a case for the importance of non-symbolic phenomena. Altogether, this dissertation aims to solidify the …
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Becoming identities: The philosophical subject, intersectionality, and assemblage
… of philosophy, exposing its solipsism and arguing that even philosophical endeavors that reject discursive appeals to identity involve hidden identity politics. Through the work of María Lugones, Audre Lorde and Luce Irigaray, I assert that philosophy needs to think through …
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Taking Berkeley seriously
… that Berkeley’s “Master Argument” commits him to solipsism can be addressed by pointing out that our knowledge of other minds is an active volitional awareness and, thus, not relevant to the “Master Argument.” Finally, the cost of this extension is that Berkeley’s argument for God-as-Perceiver …
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Adam Naming And Aesop Fabling: Artist-figures In The Prose Works Of Dylan Thomas
… strategies, Thomas abandons his earlier solipsism in favour of democratized art.;A study of the prose also casts light on themes and techniques in the poetry. Most studies of the poems to date have attempted to resolve the contending images in the poems, often resulting in contradictory …
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Playful Platonist : The development of ideas in the novels of Iris Murdoch
… contingency of the world is based on a defensive solipsism, and argues that the world beyond the self should be a matter for delight and instruction in the insignificance of the individual. It further shows how her fundamental philosophical beliefs are indebted to Plato, in that she follows him in …
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La soledad en Clen anos de soledad de Gabriel Garcia Marquez
… elderliness, repetition, oblivion, narcissism, solipsism, fate and time. The Conclusion shows that in the specific geographic and historical context, the sub-themes analysed are in fact all themes of solitude in this novel and that solitude is the cause of the apocalyptic demise of Macondo and …
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Cooperating As Peers: Labor Justice Between Distributive and Relational Equality
… avoids the paternalistic consequences and moral solipsism of some theories of meaningful work, while still defending the need for justice at work. Overall, this norm contributes to shift the focus of the debate from problems of the inherent meaning of work and self-realization, to the problem of …