Bøger af John Dorsch

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the 19th Century, grade: 1,3, University of Tubingen, course: Interpretationskurs: Hegel's Phänomenologie des Geistes, language: English, abstract: The transition from consciousness to self-consciousness in Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" is as complex and controversial as it is as essential and influential. Understanding this transition requires the careful explication of Hegel's conception of life, independence, desire and recognition, as well as his conception of the infinite. In this paper, Selbstständigkeit, often translated as independence, is interpreted as expressing the Axiom of Closure in Set Theory and the infinite is read through a linguistic conception of identity, with pragmatic and semantic constraints, and its notion in Mathematical Analysis, discussed by Hegel in his Greater Logic. With these rigorous notions and a direct reading of the principle text, a transition is developped from consciousness to self-consciousness that, the paper argues, affords a clearer perspective than currently offered by the literature.

InhaltsverzeichnisEinleitung§1 Die Werke Heideggers und Hölderins: ein konzertiertes Unternehmen§2 Die Rolle der Kunst und der Dichtung§3 Debatte über die Natur des Hermeneutischen Zirkels§3.1 Heidegger§3.2 Gadamer§3.3 Stegmüller§4 Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes:§4.1 Ontologische Umwandlung 1: vom Werk zum Ding§4.2 Ontologische Umwandlung 2: vom Ding zum Zeug§4.3 Ontologische Umwandlung 3: vom Zeughaften zum Zeugsein§5 Hyperion und das Sein des Hermeneutischen Zirkels§5.1 Exzentrische Bahn und der Hermeneutische Zirkel§5.2 Adamas§5.3 Alabanda§5.4 Diotima§6 SchlussBibliographie

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the 20th century, grade: 1,0, University of Tubingen, language: English, abstract: Dishabituation experiments that involve an increase in the duration of longer looking times of infants have been argued to entail core knowledge. Despite how one chooses to understand the results of these experiments and whether or not core knowledge is needed to describe and explain them, what is needed is a theory that explains why infants find a state of affairs more novel and why infants behave as they do. This theory would account for infants' expectations. In his forthcoming publication, Stephen Butterfill suggest a theory based on what he calls phenomenal expectations. Butterfill maintains that phenomenal expectations not only describe and explain infants' behavior in anticipatory looking experiments, but also they are able to overcome Davidson's challenge of providing a middle-ground between propositional thought and mindless behavior. I begin by introducing the discussion concerning dishabituation experiments, core knowledge and phenomenal expectation, then I investigate the significance of phenomenal expectations integrated into theories of perception and test whether phenomenal expectations overcome Davidson's challenge.

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Literature - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Tubingen, course: Dubliners and Glaswegians, language: English, abstract: Despite often being described as the prototypical author of postmodern literature, in a letter to Dietmar Böhnke, Alasdair Gray has this to say about postmodernism, ¿Post modernism seems the creation of scholars acquiring a territory to lecture upon.¿ - thus ridiculing his status as a postmodern writer. In this paper, I'll work closely with Gray's short story collection, Glaswegians, and will interpret whether it is modern, postmodern, or post-postmodern. To assist my determination, I will investigate the history of the postmodern, dividing it into its philosophical and cultural vocabularies. The result of my investigation and interpretation is that Glaswegians is a post-postmodern work because, despite the play with what could be called a postmodern elements, it provides the reader with answers to postmodern dilemmas and points to something ¿outside the text¿.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Kunst - Kunstgeschichte, Note: 1,5, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Veranstaltung: Bilddruck in Europa 1480-1980, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: What is that common expression?¿a picture is worth a thousand words. We say this because every image tells a story. But if an image tells a story, then how, when it is only a single image? Pictorial narrative is the name for an image's propensity to tell a story. By this we mean a single static image, not a series of static images. Not until recently has the topic of pictorial narrative received so much attention from the research. This is largely due to three dilemmas that arise when attempting to conceptualize a two dimensional work of art as depicting four dimensions: in regards to the artwork, Who is the narrator of the story? How is the sequence of events represented? What provokes the viewer to begin telling herself a story?The purpose of this paper is to address these questions, develop concepts for their articulation and relation, and apply the resulting concepts to an analysis of Lucas van Leyden's "Ecce Homo". The approach offered is a post-structuralist account of narration, an inferential account of meaning, and a phenomenological account of experience. This paper is indebted to Lorenzo Pericolo's monograph entitled Caravaggio and Pictorial Narrative for articulating the dilemmas concerning pictorial narrative.

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Literature - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Tubingen, language: English, abstract: In "The Task of the Translator", Walter Benjamin sets forth what he believes to be the true goal of any work of translation. Instead of conforming to the reader, a translation should conform to the source and target language of the work, the purpose of which is to expose the relationship between the two languages, how each complements the other in its use. But is there more to Benjamin's Task than that?Walter Benjamin is commonly thought of as a Neukantianer because of his influence by the Marburger school, especially Cohen. Little is known, however, about his influence by Husserl's school of phenomenology. In this paper, we will determine Benjamin's influence by phenomenology by first developing a concise conception of intentionality based on a close reading of Husserl's principle work Logische Untersuchungen, as intentionality is the key term linking Benjamin to the phenomenological tradition. We will then provide a novel interpretation of Benjamin's essay "Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers" by focusing on his use of the phenomenological term 'intention' and, with help of Benjamin's fragments on the philosophy of language¿where he also used the term intention in the phenomenological sens, provide a novel understanding of what Benjamin means by "das Gemeinte" and "die Art des Meinens" with respect to his theory of translation.

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the 20th century, grade: 1,3, University of Tubingen, course: Hegels Differenzschrift, language: English, abstract: In this paper, I propose that Hegel and Frege are more alike than currently thought. As Hegel and Frege are the founding fathers of the continental and analytic cultures of philosophy respectively, the salient argument of this paper is that the two cultures are, likewise, more alike than thought. I compare Hegel's first publication, often called Differenzschrift, to Frege's later works on the philosophy of language, Funktion und Begriff and Über Sinn und Bedeutung. I argue that in explicating the cognitive difference expressed by the concept of identity, Hegel develops a theory of pragmatics and semantics that has several similarities to the Mediated Reference Theory proposed by Frege. In doing so, I present an analytic account of Hegel's Absolute Identity determined by the equality of the co-domains produced by two compound functions. These functions are composed of semantic, pragmatic and epistemic constraints that evaluate the ontic content of a proposition.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Amin Maalouf definiert mörderische Identität als diejenige, die das Individuum auf lediglich eine einzige seiner Zugehörigkeiten reduziert. Stattdessen argumentiert er für eine alternative Auffassung der Identität, welche sich über das Leben des Individuums hinweg ändert, welche alle möglichen Zugehörigkeiten eines Individuums einschließt und ausdrückt ¿ seien sie religiösen, kulturellen, linguistischen, oder intellektuellen Ursprungs. Weil Maalouf die Ansicht vertritt, dass fundamentalistische Taten von jenen Personen begangen werden, deren Identität bedroht ist, ist er davon überzeugt, dass die Adaptation einer ¿ wie man es wohl nennen darf ¿ dekonstruierten Identität beitragen würde, fundamentalistische Taten zu verhindern. Obwohl ich diese Ansicht teile, scheint mir, dass Maaloufs Plädoyer für eine dekonstruierte Identität gewisse Dilemmas außer Acht lässt, welche zunächst erörtert werden müssen, bevor eine dekonstruierte Identität zu adaptieren wäre: Vorausgesetzt, dass eine dekonstruierte Identität adaptiert ist, mit welchen Kriterien entscheidet man nun, ob Werte ¿ gesellschaftliche, religiöse, kulturelle Werte etc. ¿ anzunehmen bzw. zurückzuweisen sind? Wie kommt man zum Entschluss, dass eine Handlung authentisch ist? Und nach der Adaption einer dekonstruierten Identität, was wird aus der Beziehung zwischen dem Individuum und der Heimat? Mithilfe der Philosophie von Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, und Friedrich Hölderlin ¿ die ihrerseits eine dekonstruierte Identität befürworten ¿ adressiere ich solche Dilemmas. Es wird sich herausstellen, dass interkulturelle Bildung als auch die Erschaffung von Kunst erforderlich sind für die Adaption einer dekonstruierten Identität.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie der Antike, Note: 1,5, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Für die Vorsokratiker gab es keinen Unterschied zwischen der Philosophie und den Wissenschaften. Als sie philosophierten, suchten sie nach vernünftigen Erklärungen für die Beschaffenheit der Welt und der Rolle des Daseins in der Welt. Zuweilen kam es zu beweisbaren Nachweisen, die wir heutzutage wissenschaftlich nennen würden, andererseits entwarfen sie zugleich Erläuterungen der Welt, die wir als philosophisch bezeichnen würden. Der Zweck dieses Aufsatzes ist es, die Verbindung zwischen Philosophie und Wissenschaft im Zeitalter der vorsokratischen Philosophen zu untersuchen. Eine Zeit, in welcher der Unterschied zwischen den beiden nicht existierte. Ferner ist es das Ziel dieses Aufsatzes, ein Bild von den Vorsokratikern zu gewinnen; deren Perspektive wir Post-Modernisten als Mittel anwenden könnten, um die Trennung der Philosophie und der Wissenschaft aufzuheben, damit anstatt einer Zwietracht eine Harmonie zwischen ihnen entstehen könnte.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Note: 1,3, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: With the advancement, logic made it the late 19th century and the subsequent integration of propositional logic into philosophy. A large part of the work of Bertrand Russell has been a great divide concerning how philosophy should be done. The words idealism, speculation and holism have become frowned upon as the venacular of a mystic insight that has its pinnacle in the philosophy of Hegel. Subsequently anyone daring to research Hegel must either reject this expansion of logic altogether or deal with the backlash and resulting ostracism. Only recently something gas started to change. With Richard Rorty's book "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature", travel passes have begun to be issued for the Trans-Atlantic voyage with many ports showing signs of a framework bridging the continental divide.In this essay I will be attempting to hammer together some of the boards of that framework. As many of these conflicts have their source in Russell's departure from idealism and his use of Fregean methods in philosophy, I'll be attempting to get at the source of this rift by collecting my lumber from Hegel's bough and from the crotch of the analytic branch. Analytic philosophers have begun to critique Frege and Russell, thus extending their surculi within reach of an essay on the Phenomenology of Mind.The burning question as to just how we are best to bring Hegel's philosophy over to the analytic shores arises. In order to address this conundrum we must first have a good understanding of what is essential to his philosophy. For after all, we haven't succeeded in preserving the Mona Lisa if we have only retained her smile. Well argued are the points made by Horstmann in his article What is Hegel's Legacy and What Should We Do With It? In it he claims the systematic holism of the philosophy of Hegel to be essential and emphasiszes that a disection would invalidate any attempt at preservation. On the other side of this debate stands Robert Brandom who claims that Horstmann's argument for a swallow it whole approach is what precludes answering the question as to how to deal with the semantically monolithic system.

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the 20th century, grade: 1,5, University of Tubingen, course: Husserls Logische Untersuchungen, language: English, abstract: An essay built upon the work of Käte Hamburger aimed at developing Rilke's theory of epistemology in relation to cognitive phenomenology.Käte Hamburger has argued that Rainer Maria Rilke was a poet practicing phenomenology. This paper builds off her work, assuming Rilke to have conducted phenomenology by composing his lyric, and, with aid of the Neue Gedichte, seeks to address the tension between sensory and cognitive phenomenology. Cognitive Phenomenology is a new field of research that seeks to discover, if there be such a thing, the qualia of cognitive states. By a close reading of Husserl principle text, Logische Untersuchungen, this paper first established the structure of intentionality. We then apply Husserl's notion of intentionality to Rilke's lyric. The result of this research is that according to Husserl's analysis of intentionality, the existence of a pure cognitive phenomenology is left unanswered, but cognitive phenomenology does exist and is qualitatively different from sensory phenomenology. Lastly, we propose that the quale of a cognitive state is the same as the necessary conditions for that state, whose structure can, and should, be rigidly defined through linguistics. We conclude with the thought that this task would be the left to a new branch of linguistics called phenomenological linguistics. We argue our perspective with examples from Rilke's poetry.