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Naïve Realism and its Metaphysical Considerations: A Question Based Approach to the Phenomenological Tradition

Afshar, Masoud | 2018

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 52044 (42)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Philosophy of Science
  6. Advisor(s): Taheri Khoram Abadi, Ali
  7. Abstract:
  8. How is it possible for mind to be directed to the world? Or for it to be opened to the world? This question – formulated as the problem of knowledge - has been the central question of the modern philosophy. Rediscovering of the concept of "intentionality" as the mark of the mental by Franz Brentano, Contemporary philosophy succeeded in addressing this central question in a more direct and explicit a way. Intentional character of mind is more obvious in sensory experiences. Perception seems to be the minds openness to the world. But the possibility of having illusory or hallucinatory experiences challenges that very conception of perceptual experiences as openness. In analytic philosophy “naïve realism” is a view that defends the perceptual experience as the mind's openness to the world. With this view in hand we take one step further in providing a solution to the big problem of intentionality. In this research I will show that some important insights in phenomenological tradition are consistent with the doctrine of naïve realism. Furthermore this tradition takes the concept of "life" as more fundamental that the concept pf mind and world. Investigating this crucial insight I will show that phenomenological version of naïve realism is also compatible with some cultural and historical differences in sense perception
  9. Keywords:
  10. Sense Perception ; Life Time ; Illusion ; Phenomenology ; Naive Realism

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