Kathleen Wider
Biographic Data
| ID | 987091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Wider |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Wider |
| SIGNATURE | WIDER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan–Dearborn |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sartre and Spinoza on the nature of mind
The self and others
Natika Newton, Foundations of Understanding
The Failure of Self-Consciousness in Sartre's Being and Nothingness
The central tenet in the ontology Sartre describes and seeks to defend in Being and Nothingness is that being divides into the for-itself and the in-itself. Self-consciousness characterizes being-for-itself and distinguishes it from being-in-itself. What it means for a being to exist for itself is that it is self-conscious. How Sartre characterizes self-consciousness in Being and Nothingness is, however, a question that remains to be asked. There…
Sartre and the Long Distance Truck Driver
(1993). Sartre and the Long Distance Truck Driver: The Reflexivity of Consciousness. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 24, The Other, Consciousness and Values, pp. 232-249
Overtones of Solipsism in Thomas Nagel's "What is it Like to be a Bat?" and the View from Nowhere
Thomas Nagel has been arguing for many years now a physicalist account of consciousness can only provide an incomplete analysis of mind. It cannot, given the very nature of the account, capture the subjective character of experience, i.e., what it is like to be a conscious creature, to have experience. According to Nagel, an objective physical account cannot exhaustively analyze subjectivity. What constantly eludes the stretch of the physical the…
Through the looking glass
Hell and the Private Language Argument
Women Philosophers in the Ancient Greek World
This paper argues that there were women involved with philosophy on a fairly constant basis throughout Greek antiquity. It does so by tracing the lives and where extant the writings of these women. However, since the sources, both ancient and modern, from which we derive our knowledge about these women are so sexist and easily distort our view of these women and their accomplishments, the paper also discusses the manner in which their histories c…
Women Philosophers in the Ancient Greek World
This paper argues that there were women involved with philosophy on a fairly constant basis throughout Greek antiquity. It does so by tracing the lives and where extant the writings of these women. However, since the sources, both ancient and modern, from which we derive our knowledge about these women are so sexist and easily distort our view of these women and their accomplishments, the paper also discusses the manner in which their histories c…
Sartre and the Long Distance Truck Driver
(1993). Sartre and the Long Distance Truck Driver: The Reflexivity of Consciousness. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 24, The Other, Consciousness and Values, pp. 232-249
Through the looking glass
Hell and the Private Language Argument
Women Philosophers in the Ancient Greek World
This paper argues that there were women involved with philosophy on a fairly constant basis throughout Greek antiquity. It does so by tracing the lives and where extant the writings of these women. However, since the sources, both ancient and modern, from which we derive our knowledge about these women are so sexist and easily distort our view of these women and their accomplishments, the paper also discusses the manner in which their histories c…
Hell and the Private Language Argument
Through the looking glass
Overtones of Solipsism in Thomas Nagel's "What is it Like to be a Bat?" and the View from Nowhere
Thomas Nagel has been arguing for many years now a physicalist account of consciousness can only provide an incomplete analysis of mind. It cannot, given the very nature of the account, capture the subjective character of experience, i.e., what it is like to be a conscious creature, to have experience. According to Nagel, an objective physical account cannot exhaustively analyze subjectivity. What constantly eludes the stretch of the physical the…
The Failure of Self-Consciousness in Sartre's Being and Nothingness
The central tenet in the ontology Sartre describes and seeks to defend in Being and Nothingness is that being divides into the for-itself and the in-itself. Self-consciousness characterizes being-for-itself and distinguishes it from being-in-itself. What it means for a being to exist for itself is that it is self-conscious. How Sartre characterizes self-consciousness in Being and Nothingness is, however, a question that remains to be asked. There…
Sartre and the Long Distance Truck Driver
(1993). Sartre and the Long Distance Truck Driver: The Reflexivity of Consciousness. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 24, The Other, Consciousness and Values, pp. 232-249
Natika Newton, Foundations of Understanding
The self and others
Sartre and Spinoza on the nature of mind
Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Consciousness (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre (4 works) · Phenomenology (philosophy) (3 works) · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (3 works) · French Literature and Criticism (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works)