Year: 2013, 2013
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This project is a Heideggerian critique of the subject/object metaphysic presupposed in the Representationalist claim that the world is made intelligible solely in virtue of internal states that bear representations. It is comprised of two sections. The first is a critique of the ontological primacy of representational-intentionality/action in which I argue that where Brentano, Husserl,… more Full Text: BACKGROUND PRACTICES, AFFORDANCES, AND THE FRAME PROBLEM: A HEIDEGGERIAN CRITIQUE OF THE REPRESENTATIONALIST METAPHYSIC A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in …