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Mind Language and Action Group MLAG – Institute of Philosophy,
University of Porto, Portugal
ProtoSociology An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and
Project, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
Project
Prereflective Consciousness
Early Sartre in the Context of Contemporary Philosophy of Mind
Ce qu‘on peut nommer proprement subjectivité, c'est la
conscience (de) conscience. Jean-Paul Sartre1
Research context of the project
This project is taking place as part of the agenda of Mind Language and Action
Group (MLAG–Institute of Philosophy/ University of Porto, Portugal), a
research group in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and philosophy of
action and
ProtoSociology An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Project,
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
Research context
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J. P. Sartre, L‘être et le néant, Paris: Gallimard, 1943, 29.
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The project will be integrated in another one, called “Consciousness and
Subjectivity”, developed by Professors Sofia Miguens Travis and Gerhard
Preyer.
Editors
Sofia Miguens Travis
Professor of Philosophy (Department of Philosophy – University of Porto);
Researcher (Institute of Philosophy – University of Porto); Principal Investigator
Mind Language and Action Group (MLAG –Institute of Philosophy / University
of Porto, Portugal), Main research area: Philosophy of mind.
Clara Morando Dr.
(Institute of Philosophy – University of Porto)
Gerhard Preyer
Professor of Sociology, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a. M.
Germany
First project
The first Frankfurt-Porto consciousness Project (Consciousness and Subjectivity,
2008-2012) started with a common concern about a generalization of a
naturalized epistemology stance in current discussions on consciousness in
analytic philosophy. Not only we had doubts that naturalized epistemology
could be the last word in epistemology, but also we believed that such a situation
resulted in a blindspot concerning consciousness and subjectivity. When third
person approaches are dominant and the proximity of much philosophical work
on mind and language with cognitive science reinforces such orientation, issues
concerning subjectivity are taken to be exhausted when problems regarding the
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place of consciousness in nature, or language and first-person authority, are
addressed.
The main result of the project was the following volume:
Sofia Miguens, Gerhard Preyer eds.
Consciousness and Subjectivity
W. De Gruyter, Berlin, Ontos Publisher, Heusenstamm bei Frankfurt a. M. 2012
Second project
Our second project, “Prereflective Consciousness”, takes up issues where the first
one left them. We are particularly interested in the shape of what we see as a
return of the problem of subjectivity in philosophy of mind debates. We thus
want to explore the relations between current consciousness debates in analytical
philosophy and debates taking place in continental philosophy around the time of
J. P. Sartre, and in his work. The history of the ‘return of subjectivity’ in analytic
philosophy with which we are concerned dates back to the mid1960s and to early
critiques of functionalism in the philosophy of mind in the 1970s. A number of
philosophers with different backgrounds agreed that phenomenal consciousness
(understood as the for-me-ness of experience) could not be reduced to functionalcognitive properties. Such agreement went under headings such as the
“explanatory gap” or the “hard problem of consciousness”. One may see it as
leading to a renewal of the Cartesian intuition of the self-giveness of
consciousness. Under such light, the needs to redraw borders between the inside
and the outside of the mental arises.
The question becomes whether the ‘inner’ should be characterized as under
the skin only, and also there is indeed an epistemic priority of consciousness of
one’s mental states in relation to knowledge of other minds and the world. Along
with the idea that the mental cannot be described from the outside only goes an
analysis of pre-reflexive (immediate) consciousness, which extends to phenomenal
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consciousness, self-knowledge as I-knowledge, intentional states and the
consciousness of time. Questions regarding the mind-body problem become open
once again.
It is in such context that the œuvres of the early Sartre, namely La
transcendence de l’ego and L’être et le néant are particularly significant and may
provide an important orientation. Such orientation concerns a psychophenomenology analysis of pre-reflexive consciousness, involving the problem of
the reflet-reflétant, consciousness of time, thetic and non-thetic consciousness,
consciousness and the body as a whole, etc. Also, Sartre’s phenomenology has a
clear ontological orientation and thus provides valuable insights on the
phenomenology-ontology liaison. Authors directly connected to Sartre’s
philosophy, such as Brentano, Husserl or Heidegger, etc. can play a special role in
attaining a deeper grasp on Sartre’s way of dealing with the questions of
consciousness, self-consciousness, self–knowledge, self-determination or selfreference. One important intuition of Sartre’s is that consciousness is different
from, and contrasts with, the ego. He also has important proposals regarding prereflexivity as possible soil of the Cartesian cogito.
From there we intend to look upon current proposals which address
awareness as a non-egological stance, also aiming at understanding some of their
main consequences, for instance in the problem of indexicals when related to the
problem of reflexivity.
A general intention of this project, as it was already the case with the first
one,
is
to
bring
analytic,
or
analytically
inspired,
philosophers
and
phenomenologists working on the continent with English-speaking philosophers.
Furthermore, we believe non-reductionism in the philosophy of mind does not
entail the option for a particular ontology. What is at stake is not opting for
ontological dualism in epistemology and the philosophy of mind, but simply
taking the explanatory gap seriously.
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Contributors
Denis Bühler, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy, University of
California, Los Angeles, United States of America.
Anna Ciaunica, post doc., Université de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Jeremy Ekberg, Associate Professor of English, Shantou University,
Shantou, China.
Matthew C. Eshleman, Professor of Philosophy,
Department of
Philosophy and Religion, University of North Carol, Wilmington,
Wilmington, NC, United States of America.
Manfred Frank, Professor of Philosophy emer., Eberhard Karls University,
Tübingen, Germany.
Rocco J. Gennaro, Professor and Chair, Philosophy Department/Phil of
Mind/CogSci Area Editor, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, College of
Liberal Arts, University of Southern Indiana, University Blvd., Evansville,
IN, United States of America.
Andreas Heinz, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Klinik für
Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Campus Charité-Mitte, Berlin, Germany.
Terry Horgan, Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson,
AZ, United States of America.
Iker Garcia, Visiting Lecturer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Champaign, United States of America.
Tomis Kapitan, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy,
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, United States of America.
Uriah Kriegel, Professor of Philosophy, Research Director, Jean Nicod
Institute, Ecole Normal Supérieure, Paris, France.
Dorothée Legrand, Professor of Philosophy, Chercheur CNRS, Archives
Husserl, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
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Joseph Levine, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy,
University of Mass, Amherst, MA, United States of America.
Sofia Miguens, Professor of Philosophy,
Departemento di Filosofia, Porto, Portugal.
University
of
Porto,
Raoul Moati, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy. University of
Chicago, Chicago. United States of America.
Clara Bravo Morando, Dr. phil., University of Porto, Departemento di
Filosofia, Porto, Portugal.
Katherine Morris, Fellow in Philosophy, Mansfield College, Oxford
University, Great Britain.
Kristina Musholt, Juniorprofessor in Neurophilosophy, Institute of
Philosophy, University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
Jean-Philippe Narboux, Professor of Philosophy, Département de
Philosophie UFR Humanités Université Bordeaux 3, Pessa, France.
Shaun Nichols, Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson,
AZ, United States of America.
Gerhard Preyer, Professor of Sociology, Goethe-University Frankfurt am
Main, Frankfurt a. M., Germany.
Pierre-Jean Renaudie, Post-Doctoral
Porto/University of Lisbon. Portugal.
Researcher,
University
of
Daniel R. Rodriguez Navas, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy,
University of Chicago, Chicago, United States of America.
Mark Rowlands, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy,
University of Miami, Coral Gables, United States of America.
Gerhard Seel, Professor of Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, University
Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Eric Trémault, Doctor in Philosophy, Université Paris I - PanthéonSorbonne, Paris, France.
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Joshua Tepley, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Saint Anselm College,
Manchester, NH, United States of America.
Jonathan Webber, Reader in Philosophy, School of English,
Communication, and Philosophy, Cardiff University, Humanities Building,
Cardiff, United States of America.
Kathleen Wider, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Literature,
Philosophy, and the Arts, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn
Michigan, United States of America.
Kenneth Williford, Professor & Chair, Department of Philosophy, UT
Arlington, Arlington, United States of America.
Contents
(draft; tentative arrangement, with the subject of the contributions; no final
title, no arrangement in parts)
Manfred Frank
Prereflective consciousness
Tomis Kapitan
Self-consciousness, subjectivity, and the first-person.
Joseph Levine
Phenomenal Access and Non-positional Consciousness
Jonathan Webber
Sartre prereflecivity and first person authority
Mark Rowlands
Sartre's adverbialism
Pierre-Jean Renaudie
Transparency without immunity : the problem of first-person authority in
Sartre
Clara Bravo Morando
The Subject without an I: prereflexivity as a form of apparent invisibility
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Gerhard Seel
Consciousness of time (Sartre)
Daniel R. Rodriguez Navas
Sartre's impersonal conception of consciousness
Raoul Moati
The Impossible Transcendence of the Ego
Rocco J. Gennaro
The 'of' of intentionality and the 'of' of acquaintance
Uriah Kriegel
Perception and imagination: a Sartrean account
Eric Trémault
Sartre's non-thetical self-consciousness/Brentano's internal consciousness
and as a result of their misunderstanding of the cartesian cogito
Joshua Tepley
Sartre on Consciousness and the Ego
Kathleen Wider
Prereflective Consciousness: Early Sartre in the Context of Contemporary
Philosophy of Mind
Matthew C. Eshleman
Sartre’s Error Theory: Towards an Highly Revisionary Account of PreReflective Consciousness
Kristina Musholt
Sartre's prereflective consciousness in the context of contemporary
discussions of implicit de se content
Jean-Philippe Narboux
Self-Consciousness Without a Self
Iker Garcia Plazaola
Prereflective consciousness: Kierkegaard Predecessor of Sartre?
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Katherine Morris
Prereflective features of Pain
Jeremy Ekberg
Something about prereflectivity and Sartre’s play “Les Jeux Sont Faits”
Dorothée Legrand
The specificity and singularity of subjectivity, phenomenological
investigation
Denis Bühler
De se indexes and their role in attentional control of action
Kenneth Williford
The Development of Sartre's Conception of Pre-Reflective SelfConsciousness
Terry Horgan, Shaun Nichols
The Self as Zero-Point vs. the Represented Self
Andreas Heinz
Psychotic ego-disorders – loss of prereflective self-reference?
Anna Ciaunica
Pre-reflective (basic cognition) in young children
Deadline for incoming articles
June 1, 2014
Publisher
Not yet fixed
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Publications
philosophy of mind, language, action
Mind Language and Action Group, ProtoSociology
Sofia Miguens, Gerhard Preyer (Eds.)
Consciousness and Subjectivity
Series: Philosophical Analysis 47
W. De Gruyter, Berlin, Ontos publisher, Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt a. M.
Germany
Mind Language and Action Group
1. Books
Sofia Miguens
Uma Teoria Fisicalista do Conteúdo e da Consciência – D. Dennett e os
debates da filosofia da mente. Porto, Campo das Letras, Colecção Nous,
2002, 596 pp. ISBN: 972-610-653-2.
Racionalidade. Porto, Campo das Letras, 2004, 215 pp. ISBN: 978-9726108580.
Filosofia da linguagem – uma introdução. Porto, FL–UP, Colecção CAPFLUP, 2007, 294 pp. ISBN: 978-972-8932-28-2. (2ª edição: 2012)
Será que a minha mente está dentro da minha cabeça? Da ciência cognitiva
à filosofia (ensaios). Porto, Campo das Letras, 2008, 271 pp. ISBN: 978-9896253479.
Compreender a mente e o conhecimento. Porto, FL–UP, 2009, 421 pp.
ISBN: 978-972-8932-50-3. ISSN: 1646-6527.
John McDowell – uma análise a partir da filosofia moral (with Susana
Cadilha) (forthcoming)
João Alberto Pinto
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Superveniência, Materialismo e Experiência – Uma perspectiva sobre o
problema da consciência em filosofia da mente. Porto, Campo das Letras,
2007.
Paulo Tunhas
O Pensamento e os seus Objectos. Porto, FL–UP, 2009, 421 pp. ISBN: 978972-8932-71-8. ISSN: 1646-6527.
2. Edited books
Sofia Miguens, João Alberto Pinto e Carlos Eduardo Mauro coords.,
Análises / Analyses – Actas do Segundo Encontro Nacional de Filosofia
Analítica / Proceeedings of the 2nd National Meeting for Analytic
Philosophyx., Porto, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2006,
378 pp. ISBN: 978-972-8932-09-1
Sofia Miguens e Carlos Mauro coords, Perspectives on Rationality. Porto,
FL-UP, MLAG Discussion Papers vol. 1, 2006, 199 pp. ISBN: 972-8932-219. ISSN: 1646-6527.
Carlos E. Mauro, Sofia Miguens e Susana Cadilha, Mente, Linguagem e
Acção – textos para discussão. Coordenação 2009. Porto, Campo das Letras,
254 pp. ISBN: 978-989-625-356Sofia Miguens e Manuela Teles (coords), Aparência e Realidade, Lisboa,
Colibri, col. Episteme, 2010. 233 pp. ISBN: 978-989-689-032-22.
Sofia Miguens, João Alberto Pinto e Manuela Teles coords., Aspectos do
Juízo /Aspects of Judgement – Actas do Colóquio Internacional Anual CMLAG 2009 & 2010 / Proceedings of C-MLAG Annual International
Conference 2009 & 2010, Porto, FL-UP, MLAG Discussion Papers vol. 4,
2011. 295 pp. ISBN: 978-972-8932-69-5; ISSN: 1646-6527.
Sofia Miguens e Susana Cadilha coords., Acção e Ética – Conversas sobre
Racionalidade Prática, , Lisboa, Colibri, col. Episteme, 2011, 310 pp. ISBN:
978-972-772-155-8)3.
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Resultado do Projecto (interno ao Instituto de Filosofia) Convergences / Convergências (2007-2010).
Publicação resultante do Projecto Conversations on Pratical Rationality and Human Action (2007-2010)
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Carlos Mauro, Sofia Miguens & Susana Cadilha, Conversations on Practical
Rationality and Human Action, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2013. ISBN: 1-4438-4788-9.
Sofia Miguens, João Alberto Pinto, Miguel Amen e Maria Clara Dias
(coords.), Filosofia da mente – uma antologia, Porto, U. Porto editoral,
forthcoming. Brazilian edition, forthcoming
Charles Travis & Sofia Miguens (eds.), The Logical Alien At 20, Cambridge
MA, Harvard University Press, forthcoming
Rui Vieira da Cunha, Clara Morando & Sofia Miguens. From Minds to
Persons – Proceedings of MLAG 1st Graduate Conference. Porto, FL-UP,
Colecção MLAG Discussion Papers. forthcoming
Sofia Miguens & Paulo Tunhas, Ser ou não ser Kantiano. Lisboa, Colibri,
col. Episteme, forthcoming.
Sofia Miguens & Susana Cadilha coords., Frege e Intérpretes de Frege –
seminário de Charles Travis. Notas traduzidas e editadas por Sofia Miguens
e Susana Cadilha. Lisboa, Colibri, col. Episteme, forthcoming.
ProtoSociology
1. Protosociology Vols.
Vol. 22/2006
Compositionality, Concepts and Representations
New Problems in Cognitive Science II
Vol. 21/2005
Compositionality, Concepts and Representations
New Problems in Cognitive Science I
Vol. 14/2000
Folk Psychology, Mental Concepts and the Ascription of Attitudes
On Contemporary Philosophy of Mind
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2. Edited books
Gerhard Preyer ed.
Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning and the Mental
Oxford University, Press, Oxford UK
Gerhard Preyer, Frank Siebelt, Alexander Ulfig (eds.)
Language, Mind, and Epistemology
On Donald Davidson’s Philosophy
Synthesis Library, Springer Verlag, Wien
3. Books
Erwin Rogler and Gerhard Preyer
Materialismus, anomaler Monismus und mentale Kausalität
Zur gegenwärtigen Philosophie des Mentalen bei
Donald Davidson und David Lewis
Verlag Humanities-Online, Frankfurt a. Main
Gerhard Preyer
Intention and Practical Thought
Humanities Online, Frankfurt a. M.
Gerhard Preyer
Back to Cartesian Intuition
Internalism, Externalism, and the Mental
Forthcoming
4. Articles
Erwin Rogler and Gerhard Preyer
Anomalous Monism and Mental Causality
On the Debate of Donald Davidson’s Philosophy of the Mental
Humanities Online, Frankfurt a. M., Open Access: Free to download
Erwin Rogler
On David Lewis’ Philosophy of Mind
Humanities Online, Frankfurt a. M., Open Access: Free to download
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Bibliography
Gerhard Preyer
http://www.gesellschaftswissenschaften.uni-frankfurt.de/institut_1/gpreyer/schriftenverzeichnis.html
Guidelines for contributors
http://www.protosociology.de/Guidelines.html