First, to Dean, hi, and my thanks for your contributions to this thread!
Mind you, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to respond to your last, which
was addressed to Alan. (I only posted the original inquiry.) But, yes,
Merleau-Ponty could be of interest in this matter, I think. I've
noticed a certain overlap between his work and that of noted BRITISH
thinker, Gilbert Ryle ('The Philosophy of Mind' [1949]). Both accept
that mind and bodily actions are essentially one and the same, i.e.,
bodily actions aren't merely a RESULT of some far richer 'cogitative
shadow-operation which we do not witness, tallying with, and
controlling, the bodily [actions] which we do witness' (Ryle).
Second, I've tonight posted on my website follow-up thoughts on this
inner/outer matter (as I originally formulated it, quoting Munsterberg),
adding to what I put up there yesterday. In particular, I cite the
theatre's leading philosopher-playwright of the relation of performance
to audience, Luigi Pirandello, and instance Hitchcock's DOWNHILL and
VERTIGO.
The URL is: http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/news-home_c.html
Third, I'm still VERY keen to hear from the EXPERTS here re
Munsterberg's definitions of the forms of the outer world ('space, time
and causality') and of the inner world ('attention, memory, imagination
and emotion'). Are these acceptable definitions, please?
Thanks - Ken Mogg
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