{"title":"Merleau-Ponty reader of Goldstein: what is organismic intentionality?","authors":"Marcos José Müller","doi":"10.7213/1980-5934.34.063.ao02","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The present study proposes an investigation into the reasons why Merleau-Ponty recognizes, in Goldstein’s incorporation of the figure-ground notion from the Gestalt Psychology, the convergence between contemporary science and phenomenological philosophy. It is about understanding how, insofar as it reveals the power of centering that operates in the concreteness of the existence of organisms in the surroundings, the notion of figure-background corresponds to the phenomenological notion of operative intentionality. In the same way, it is a matter of showing in what sense, as a form of operative intentionality, the power of centering of organisms does not need to be based on the presupposition of an “I think”. \nKeywords: Merleau-Ponty; Goldstein; Gestalt; organismic intentionality \n \n ","PeriodicalId":52002,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Filosofia Aurora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Revista de Filosofia Aurora","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7213/1980-5934.34.063.ao02","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: The present study proposes an investigation into the reasons why Merleau-Ponty recognizes, in Goldstein’s incorporation of the figure-ground notion from the Gestalt Psychology, the convergence between contemporary science and phenomenological philosophy. It is about understanding how, insofar as it reveals the power of centering that operates in the concreteness of the existence of organisms in the surroundings, the notion of figure-background corresponds to the phenomenological notion of operative intentionality. In the same way, it is a matter of showing in what sense, as a form of operative intentionality, the power of centering of organisms does not need to be based on the presupposition of an “I think”.
Keywords: Merleau-Ponty; Goldstein; Gestalt; organismic intentionality
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The Revista de Filosofia: Aurora (Qualis A2) is a quarterly publication of the Graduate Program in Philosophy of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR). It has published, since 1988, research findings with the purpose of contributing to the training and activity of philosophers and other professionals in related fields. The Revista de Filosofia Aurora (Journal of Philosophy Aurora) publishes scientific articles, reviews, and interviews by adopting the peer review process among members of the editorial board and the specialized scientific community in a double-blind review, i.e., both the names of the reviewers and of the authors are not disclosed. The abbreviated title of the journal is Rev. Filos. Aurora and it is used in bibliographies, references, footnotes, and bibliographic legends.