A passion for specificity : confronting inner experience in literature and science / Marco Caracciolo and Russell T. Hurlburt ; with a foreword by Eric Schwitzgebel.

Author
Caracciolo, Marco [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
xi, 327 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Author
    Writer of foreword
    Series
    Cognitive approaches to culture [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-322) and index.
    Contents
    • In which Marco asks Russ about reading, but he responds about presuppositions
    • Russ performs a small study that surprises Marco
    • Russ presumes to identify Marco's presuppositions
    • Marco's questionnaire and a "boot-like" sentence
    • Contrasting broad experience and pristine experience, with Amsterdam as an example
    • In which Marco sends Russ his paper on the experience of reading Mccarthy's The road; Russ hesitates but then critiques it
    • Phenomena and how to explore them
    • In which Marco rankles at Russ's emphasis on delusion, and they discuss the existence of experience
    • Great Expectations and genies reveal something about knowing others' experience
    • Pristine experience, broad experience, presuppositions, and tendencies; Russ challenges James Joyce
    • On the adulteration of pristine experience
    • Phenomena, adulteration, apples, and turkey
    • Pristine experience: broad experience :: phenomena : not phenomena
    • Phenomena, mental states, judgments, and hunger
    • Getting even more personal
    • Similarity and familiarity, scams, and the fight to the death
    • Marco wears the beeper
    • Ultimately personal: twenty-four moments of Marco's pristine experience
    • A very small quibble on wording
    • Salient characteristics of Marco's experience as characterized by Russ
    • Two more quibbles on wording
    • Where Russ transitions back to the general
    • Feeling hooks inside one's chest; metaphor and experience
    • Metaphor tables
    • Retrospective prospections
    • In lieu of a conclusion.
    ISBN
    • 9780814213209 ((printed case ; : alk. paper))
    • 0814213200 ((printed case ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016032780
    OCLC
    945029849
    Other standard number
    • 40026744347
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