Michaela M Mcsweeney
Biographic Data
| ID | 961796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michaela M Mcsweeney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michaela M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcsweeney |
| SIGNATURE | MCSWEENEY M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6869-5537 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Trauma, Alienation, and Grasp in advance
First, I give an account of grasp alienation, which is a distinctive kind of alienation that happens when we cannot map our phenomenal experience of the world onto our cognitive understanding. Second, I show that many common trauma reactions, as well as mental disorders that have trauma as at least a partial cause, consist partly in grasp alienation. Third, I argue that other trauma reactions (which often come only once we have escaped the trauma…
Maladjustment
Why Mary left her room
I argue for an account of grasping, or understanding that, on which we grasp via a higher‐order mental act of Husserlian fulfillment. Fulfillment is the act of matching up the objects of our phenomenally presentational experiences with those of our phenomenally representational thought. Grasping‐by‐fulfilling is importantly different from standard epistemic aims, in part because it is phenomenal rather than inferential. (I endorse Bourget's (2017…
The cost of closure
Logical Realism and the Metaphysics of Logic
Logical Realism' is taken to mean many different things. I argue that if reality has a privileged structure, then a view I call metaphysical logical realism is true. The view says that, first, there is 'One True Logic'; second, that the One True Logic is made true by the mind-and-language-independent world; and third, that the mind-and-language-independent world makes it the case that the One True Logic is better than any other logic at capturing…
Logical Realism and the Metaphysics of Logic
Logical Realism' is taken to mean many different things. I argue that if reality has a privileged structure, then a view I call metaphysical logical realism is true. The view says that, first, there is 'One True Logic'; second, that the One True Logic is made true by the mind-and-language-independent world; and third, that the mind-and-language-independent world makes it the case that the One True Logic is better than any other logic at capturing…
Why Mary left her room
I argue for an account of grasping, or understanding that, on which we grasp via a higher‐order mental act of Husserlian fulfillment. Fulfillment is the act of matching up the objects of our phenomenally presentational experiences with those of our phenomenally representational thought. Grasping‐by‐fulfilling is importantly different from standard epistemic aims, in part because it is phenomenal rather than inferential. (I endorse Bourget's (2017…
Logical Realism and the Metaphysics of Logic
Logical Realism' is taken to mean many different things. I argue that if reality has a privileged structure, then a view I call metaphysical logical realism is true. The view says that, first, there is 'One True Logic'; second, that the One True Logic is made true by the mind-and-language-independent world; and third, that the mind-and-language-independent world makes it the case that the One True Logic is better than any other logic at capturing…
The cost of closure
Maladjustment
Why Mary left her room
I argue for an account of grasping, or understanding that, on which we grasp via a higher‐order mental act of Husserlian fulfillment. Fulfillment is the act of matching up the objects of our phenomenally presentational experiences with those of our phenomenally representational thought. Grasping‐by‐fulfilling is importantly different from standard epistemic aims, in part because it is phenomenal rather than inferential. (I endorse Bourget's (2017…
Trauma, Alienation, and Grasp in advance
First, I give an account of grasp alienation, which is a distinctive kind of alienation that happens when we cannot map our phenomenal experience of the world onto our cognitive understanding. Second, I show that many common trauma reactions, as well as mental disorders that have trauma as at least a partial cause, consist partly in grasp alienation. Third, I argue that other trauma reactions (which often come only once we have escaped the trauma…
Epistemology (4 works) · Metaphysics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (2 works) · GRASP (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Logical consequence (2 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (2 works)