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
