With growing interest in the role of the body in perception, and in the related question of the possibility and nature of non-conceptual content, Merleau-Ponty’s classic work, Phenomenology of Perception, has become increasingly relevant. We will read the book in order to understand and evaluate Merleau-Ponty’s arguments against what he calls empiricism (a sort of behaviorism) and intellectualism (cognitivism), as well as his positive account of what he calls motor intentionality — a kind of intentionality without conceptual content that, Merleau-Ponty argues, is the basic way human beings are embedded in the world.


Lecture 1-9: https://youtu.be/U-ZQoMh32Ck
Lecture 10-17: https://youtu.be/lrpKlv4NqOI
Lecture 18: 00:00
Lecture 19: 01:21:33
Lecture 20: 02:42:29
Lecture 21: 04:05:21
Lecture 22: 05:26:53
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