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EXPERIMENTALISM: INTEGRATING MIND & BODY, SPIRIT & MATTER, THE ONE & THE MANY
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BLAHNIK, GARY A.
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Year and Degree
2007, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences : Philosophy.
Abstract
Experientialism proposes a new way to address the mind:body problem in philosophy. Traditional notions of mind (i.e. the mental) and body (i.e. the physical) are integrated into a philosophical perspective that, arguably, refuses to let the mind be separated from the body without distorting reality as determined by human beings. It asserts that experience defined as the necessary combination of cognition, affect, behavior, sensation, environment, and the “I” is equal to reality, thus arguing against realism and philosophies derivative of realism, rationalism and philosophies derivative of rationalism, and the dualistic philosophies that combine realism and rationalism (e.g. empiricism, phenomenology, etc.). If we cannot remove ourselves from experience, as so defined, then traditional objective reality exists within the experiential structure and traditional relative reality necessarily contains objective aspects. Within experientialism, objective philosophies are understood as meta-experiential constructs, i.e. distortions of reality, and relative philosophies are understood as naïve.
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Dr. John Bickle (Advisor)
Pages
113 p.
Subject Headings
Philosophy
Keywords
experientialism
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mind
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body
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cognition
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affect
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behavior
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sensation
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environment
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BLAHNIK, G. A. (2007).
EXPERIMENTALISM: INTEGRATING MIND & BODY, SPIRIT & MATTER, THE ONE & THE MANY
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1185550468
APA Style (7th edition)
BLAHNIK, GARY.
EXPERIMENTALISM: INTEGRATING MIND & BODY, SPIRIT & MATTER, THE ONE & THE MANY.
2007. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1185550468.
MLA Style (8th edition)
BLAHNIK, GARY. "EXPERIMENTALISM: INTEGRATING MIND & BODY, SPIRIT & MATTER, THE ONE & THE MANY." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1185550468
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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