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Melnick, Arthur Hass, Lawrence Robert 2011-05-07T12:26:27Z 2011-05-07T12:26:27Z 10000-01-01 1991 "Thought about perception finds itself confronting an antinomy: On one hand it would seem perception is the result of causal action--the effect of external objects upon us; on the other hand, there are compelling reasons to understand perception as an internally constituted event. The predominant post-Cartesian theory of perception--causal representation theory--has attempted to resolve this puzzle by synthesizing the two contrapositions through the postulation of sense-data. I argue that the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty offers a detailed and sustained critique of the program implicit in every phase of this dialectic: each type of theory, in its turn, attempts to explain the event of perception in terms of an ontological commitment that is essentially derivative from perception and hence a distorting abstraction from it. After developing each theory and re-constructing Merleau-Ponty's most persuasive arguments, I defend his own positive contribution--his ""phenomenology"" of perception--which identifies a range of interwoven perceptual structures that serve as ontological pre-conditions for thought: (1) the genealogy of objectivity, (2) the projective living body, and (3) the intersubjective world. I conclude that Merleau-Ponty's philosophy offers a solution to the antinomy of perception by inviting us to abandon the faulty ontological categories that inform it." Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:26:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9124421.pdf: 8417048 bytes, checksum: 0a4578b0f13073674a5793ff806e2dc0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1991 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:41:03Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:17:42-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9124421 (UMI)AAI9124421 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/20026 eng Copyright 1991 Hass, Lawrence Robert Philosophy Merleau-Ponty and the dialectic of perception text Philosophy Philosophy University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.