Mark Sinclair
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Sinclair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Sinclair |
| SIGNATURE | SINCLAIR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4909-1671 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Freedom as retroactivity in Bergson’s Time and Free Will
The conception of the free act in Henri Bergson’s 1889 Time and Free Will involves the underdeveloped idea that “effects precede their causes” in the motivational structure of the free decision: rather than motives determining the decision, the decision, on this account, gives shape to, and thus brings into existence, its motives. This paper illuminates this peculiar and perhaps counter-intuitive notion of backwards causation in the free decision…
Response to Moravec, Bergson and the philosophy of religion
This short communication offers a response to Moravec’s arguments in Henri Bergson and the philosophy of religion
The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy
French philosophy is an internationally celebrated national philosophical tradition, and this Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy offers a comprehensive approach to its history since 1800. The Handbook features essays, written by renowned international specialists, illuminating key movements and positions, themes and thinkers in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and even twenty-first century French philosophy. The volume takes into account develop…
BSHP New Texts in the History of Philosophy
Introduction to French spiritualism in the nineteenth century
International audience
On effort and causal power
In criticizing Hume, Biran argues that awareness of the power of the will in effort, understood as the relation of will to resistance, is the fundamental fact of all consciousness. This article revisits Biran's critique in the light of a recent defence of Hume and with reference to the first Enquiry's crucial footnote denying that effort can ground the idea of causal power. The article also addresses one of the background motivations for Hume’s s…
Intellectual biography
In 1867, on the occasion of the Exposition Universelle in Paris, Ravaisson had published an official report on the progress of nineteenth-century French philosophy, the final section of which, as Henri Bergson writes, “twenty generations of students learnt by heart” in order to pass the agregation in the following years. The physical conflict had already begun, but with Bergson address, Bergson fires the first salvo in the intellectual hostilitie…
Bergson
The Actual and the Possible
This volume offers a selection of essays by leading specialists on modality and the metaphysics of modality in the history of modern philosophy, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. It revisits key moments in the history of modern modal doctrines, and illuminates lesser-known moments of that history. With this historical approach, the book aims to contextualize and even to offer alternatives to dominant positions within the contempora…
Kant’s Material Condition of Real Possibility
In the Postulates of Empirical Thinking, a section of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant presents an account of the content and role of our concept of real possibility in terms of formal conditions of experience. However, much later in the Critique he introduces the idea of a material condition of possibility. What is this material condition of possibility, and how does it fit with the conception of possibility in terms of formal conditions? This …
Interpretation of Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation
the Determination of the Historical from the Perspective of Forgetting and Remembering 11."Forgetting"-"Remembering." The Question of "Historiology" as the Question of the "Human Being."The Course of Our Inquiry.One Path among Others
Interpretation of Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation
Félix Ravaisson
This reader makes the key essays of 19th-century French philosopher Félix Ravaisson available in English for the first time. In recent years, Ravaisson has emerged as an extremely important and influential figure in the history of modern European philosophy. The volume contains the classic 1838 dissertation Of Habit, studies of Pascal, Stoicism and the wider history of philosophy together with the Philosophical Testament that he left unfinished w…
Bergson's Philosophy of Will and the War of 1914-1918
In his wartime discourses of 1914, Henri Bergson mobilizes his philosophy of creative evolution: France is a nation of creative life able to replenish itself, whereas Germany, for all its technological might, is a mechanistic power bound to wear itself out. This paper shows that this moblization is made possible by Bergson's philosophy of will: life as a creative principle is will, and it is a controllable and commandable willpower that he oppose…
Heidegger, Von Humboldt and the Idea of the University
Martin Heidegger's short-lived rectorate of Freiburg University between April 1933 and April 1934 was the result of a decision to ally his philosophically grounded concern for university reform wit
More male primary-school teachers? Social benefits for boys and girls
The call for more male primary-school teachers has long been associated with the educational needs of boys, the importance of positive male role models in schools and the disproportionate number of male and female primary-school teachers internationally. However, little is known about whether or not parents and students actually want more male primary-school teachers and if they do, the reasons they have for wanting more. This paper addresses the…
Is Habit ‘The Fossilised Residue of a Spiritual Activity’? Ravaisson, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty
(2011). Is Habit ‘The Fossilised Residue of a Spiritual Activity’? Ravaisson, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 42, Habit, pp. 33-52
Supplements
Becoming Heidegger
Using Mead's Theory of Emergence as a Framework for Sociological Inquiry into Pre-Service Teacher Education
In this paper we take up Chang's (2004) challenge to apply Mead's theory of emergence in sociological inquiry. Largely overlooked by scholars, this theory is shown to prove explanatory in one field where limited solutions have been found to date. Specifically, the theory sheds light on how the theory-practice gap is created and sustained in pre-service teacher education. The argument is that under current institutional arrangements the trainee/be…
Philosophy of Technology
(2008). Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction, by Val Dusek. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 39, Perspectives on Heidegger, pp. 333-334
Heidegger, Aristotle and the work of art
On Heidegger's Account of Equipment in Being and Time as Metaphysics in its Repetition
Three futures for university provision
This paper discusses two types of university provision that dominate higher education in Australia, namely, the social justice market and the state capitalist form of university provision. The paper compares these two types of provision and contrasts them with the concept of private for-profit university provision. It argues that private for-profit provision holds the most promise of the three for bringing about the more publicly beneficial outco…
Facilitating the collaborative design of flexible learning materials
This paper discusses how teachers of English as a Second Language (TESOL) and educational multimedia experts collaborated in order to design a CD-ROM aimed at assisting international students to prepare for the International English Language Testing Service (IELTS) English Language Speaking test. The research focuses on the synthesis of content and multimedia knowledge and expertise. It shows how this synthesis occurred, and makes suggestions for…
More male primary-school teachers? Social benefits for boys and girls
The call for more male primary-school teachers has long been associated with the educational needs of boys, the importance of positive male role models in schools and the disproportionate number of male and female primary-school teachers internationally. However, little is known about whether or not parents and students actually want more male primary-school teachers and if they do, the reasons they have for wanting more. This paper addresses the…
Kant’s Material Condition of Real Possibility
In the Postulates of Empirical Thinking, a section of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant presents an account of the content and role of our concept of real possibility in terms of formal conditions of experience. However, much later in the Critique he introduces the idea of a material condition of possibility. What is this material condition of possibility, and how does it fit with the conception of possibility in terms of formal conditions? This …
On the Road to Catharsis
This article discusses the use of confrontational theater and critical ethno-drama as a potential route toward examining and illuminating the construction of performance catharsis. Staged catharsis is discussed as a means of sharing and mapping the collectiv ized understandings produced by audiences and participants. Theoretically, such a process may result in a better comprehension of a collectivized emotional position as the underpinning of a n…
Three futures for university provision
This paper discusses two types of university provision that dominate higher education in Australia, namely, the social justice market and the state capitalist form of university provision. The paper compares these two types of provision and contrasts them with the concept of private for-profit university provision. It argues that private for-profit provision holds the most promise of the three for bringing about the more publicly beneficial outco…
Bergson's Philosophy of Will and the War of 1914-1918
In his wartime discourses of 1914, Henri Bergson mobilizes his philosophy of creative evolution: France is a nation of creative life able to replenish itself, whereas Germany, for all its technological might, is a mechanistic power bound to wear itself out. This paper shows that this moblization is made possible by Bergson's philosophy of will: life as a creative principle is will, and it is a controllable and commandable willpower that he oppose…
Heidegger, Von Humboldt and the Idea of the University
Martin Heidegger's short-lived rectorate of Freiburg University between April 1933 and April 1934 was the result of a decision to ally his philosophically grounded concern for university reform wit
On Heidegger's Account of Equipment in Being and Time as Metaphysics in its Repetition
On the Road to Catharsis
This article discusses the use of confrontational theater and critical ethno-drama as a potential route toward examining and illuminating the construction of performance catharsis. Staged catharsis is discussed as a means of sharing and mapping the collectiv ized understandings produced by audiences and participants. Theoretically, such a process may result in a better comprehension of a collectivized emotional position as the underpinning of a n…
Facilitating the collaborative design of flexible learning materials
This paper discusses how teachers of English as a Second Language (TESOL) and educational multimedia experts collaborated in order to design a CD-ROM aimed at assisting international students to prepare for the International English Language Testing Service (IELTS) English Language Speaking test. The research focuses on the synthesis of content and multimedia knowledge and expertise. It shows how this synthesis occurred, and makes suggestions for…
Three futures for university provision
This paper discusses two types of university provision that dominate higher education in Australia, namely, the social justice market and the state capitalist form of university provision. The paper compares these two types of provision and contrasts them with the concept of private for-profit university provision. It argues that private for-profit provision holds the most promise of the three for bringing about the more publicly beneficial outco…
On Heidegger's Account of Equipment in Being and Time as Metaphysics in its Repetition
Heidegger, Aristotle and the work of art
Philosophy of Technology
(2008). Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction, by Val Dusek. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 39, Perspectives on Heidegger, pp. 333-334
Supplements
Becoming Heidegger
Using Mead's Theory of Emergence as a Framework for Sociological Inquiry into Pre-Service Teacher Education
In this paper we take up Chang's (2004) challenge to apply Mead's theory of emergence in sociological inquiry. Largely overlooked by scholars, this theory is shown to prove explanatory in one field where limited solutions have been found to date. Specifically, the theory sheds light on how the theory-practice gap is created and sustained in pre-service teacher education. The argument is that under current institutional arrangements the trainee/be…
Is Habit ‘The Fossilised Residue of a Spiritual Activity’? Ravaisson, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty
(2011). Is Habit ‘The Fossilised Residue of a Spiritual Activity’? Ravaisson, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 42, Habit, pp. 33-52
Heidegger, Von Humboldt and the Idea of the University
Martin Heidegger's short-lived rectorate of Freiburg University between April 1933 and April 1934 was the result of a decision to ally his philosophically grounded concern for university reform wit
More male primary-school teachers? Social benefits for boys and girls
The call for more male primary-school teachers has long been associated with the educational needs of boys, the importance of positive male role models in schools and the disproportionate number of male and female primary-school teachers internationally. However, little is known about whether or not parents and students actually want more male primary-school teachers and if they do, the reasons they have for wanting more. This paper addresses the…
Interpretation of Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation
the Determination of the Historical from the Perspective of Forgetting and Remembering 11."Forgetting"-"Remembering." The Question of "Historiology" as the Question of the "Human Being."The Course of Our Inquiry.One Path among Others
Interpretation of Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation
Félix Ravaisson
This reader makes the key essays of 19th-century French philosopher Félix Ravaisson available in English for the first time. In recent years, Ravaisson has emerged as an extremely important and influential figure in the history of modern European philosophy. The volume contains the classic 1838 dissertation Of Habit, studies of Pascal, Stoicism and the wider history of philosophy together with the Philosophical Testament that he left unfinished w…
Bergson's Philosophy of Will and the War of 1914-1918
In his wartime discourses of 1914, Henri Bergson mobilizes his philosophy of creative evolution: France is a nation of creative life able to replenish itself, whereas Germany, for all its technological might, is a mechanistic power bound to wear itself out. This paper shows that this moblization is made possible by Bergson's philosophy of will: life as a creative principle is will, and it is a controllable and commandable willpower that he oppose…
The Actual and the Possible
This volume offers a selection of essays by leading specialists on modality and the metaphysics of modality in the history of modern philosophy, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. It revisits key moments in the history of modern modal doctrines, and illuminates lesser-known moments of that history. With this historical approach, the book aims to contextualize and even to offer alternatives to dominant positions within the contempora…
Kant’s Material Condition of Real Possibility
In the Postulates of Empirical Thinking, a section of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant presents an account of the content and role of our concept of real possibility in terms of formal conditions of experience. However, much later in the Critique he introduces the idea of a material condition of possibility. What is this material condition of possibility, and how does it fit with the conception of possibility in terms of formal conditions? This …
Intellectual biography
In 1867, on the occasion of the Exposition Universelle in Paris, Ravaisson had published an official report on the progress of nineteenth-century French philosophy, the final section of which, as Henri Bergson writes, “twenty generations of students learnt by heart” in order to pass the agregation in the following years. The physical conflict had already begun, but with Bergson address, Bergson fires the first salvo in the intellectual hostilitie…
Bergson
Introduction to French spiritualism in the nineteenth century
International audience
On effort and causal power
In criticizing Hume, Biran argues that awareness of the power of the will in effort, understood as the relation of will to resistance, is the fundamental fact of all consciousness. This article revisits Biran's critique in the light of a recent defence of Hume and with reference to the first Enquiry's crucial footnote denying that effort can ground the idea of causal power. The article also addresses one of the background motivations for Hume’s s…
BSHP New Texts in the History of Philosophy
The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy
French philosophy is an internationally celebrated national philosophical tradition, and this Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy offers a comprehensive approach to its history since 1800. The Handbook features essays, written by renowned international specialists, illuminating key movements and positions, themes and thinkers in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and even twenty-first century French philosophy. The volume takes into account develop…
Freedom as retroactivity in Bergson’s Time and Free Will
The conception of the free act in Henri Bergson’s 1889 Time and Free Will involves the underdeveloped idea that “effects precede their causes” in the motivational structure of the free decision: rather than motives determining the decision, the decision, on this account, gives shape to, and thus brings into existence, its motives. This paper illuminates this peculiar and perhaps counter-intuitive notion of backwards causation in the free decision…
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