The Circle of Acquaintance Perception, Consciousness, and Empathy

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SYNTHESE LillRARY STUDIES IN EPISlEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Managing Editor: JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Florida State University. Tallahassee

Editors: DONALD DAVIDSON, University of California. Berkeley GABRIEL NUCHELMANS, University of Leyden WESLEY C. SALMON, University of Pittsburgh

VOLUME 205

DAVID WOODRUFF SMITH University of California, Irvine

THE CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE Perception, Consciousness, and Empathy

KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT / BOSTON / LONDON

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Slith. David Woodruff. 1944The circle of acquaintance: perception. consciousness. and empathy / David Woodruff Slith. p. cm. -- (Synthese library; v. 205) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7923-0252-4 1. Knowledge. Theory of. 2. Perception (Philosophy) 3. Awareness. 4. Empathy. 5. Intentionality (Philosophy) 6. Se.antics (Philosophy) I. Title. II. Series. BD181.S58 1989 89-2609 121' .3--dc20 ISBN-13: 978-94-010-6922-9 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-009-0961-8

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To my wife,

Mary Douglas

TABLE OF CONTENTS ANALYTICAL TABLE OF COmENTS

ix

PREFACE

xv

INTRODUCTION: Acquaintance and Intentionality

1

The Experience of Acquaintance

35

CHAPTER I:

Perceptual Awareness

37

CHAPTER II:

Consciousness and Self-Awareness

70

CHAPTER III:

Empathy and Other-Awareness

PART ONE:

PART TWO: The Relation of Acquaintance

112 137

CHAPTER IV:

Content in Context

139

CHAPTER V:

A Sense of Presence

171

CHAPTER VI:

Grounds of Acquaintance

193

BIDLIOGRAPHY

233

INDEX OF NAMES

249

INDEX OF TOPICS

251

ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION:

ACQUAINTANCE AND INTENTIONALITY

1. CURRENTS OF OUR TIME

2. WHAT IS ACQUAINTANCE? 2.1. Three Types of Acquaintance 2.2. Acquaintance as Intentional Relation 2.3. Historical Highlights: on Acquaintance, or Intuition

2 2 3 3

3. IN1ENTIONALITY 3.1. Intentional Experiences 3.2. Content and Object of Experience 3.3. Intentional Characters and Intentional Relations 3.4. Intentionality Theory as the "Semantics" of Experience 3.5. Traditional Approaches to Intentionality

6 6 7 10 11 11

4. PHENOMENOLOOICAL STRUCTURE OR CONTENT 4.1. What is Phenomenology? 4.2. Phenomenological