Table of contents

Acknowledgements

The theme

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

9-10

Color perception

An ongoing convergence of reductionism and phenomenology

Elof A. Carlson

3-11

Creative forces and formation, life's creative matrix

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

13-26

The logical form of biological objects

Nikolaj Milkov

13-28

Reconciling descriptions of consciousness from within and from without

Eldon Wait

29-40

Nature, subjectivity and the life-world

Konrad Rokstad

41-59

Self-consciousness as fact, experience and value

A phenomenological reinterpretation

Maria Gołaszewska

61-76

Intersubjective parameters of the life processes

Maija Kule

79-84

On the individual (who acts and experiences?)

Kim Rogers

85-98

Human projects in the existential phenomenology of Sartre

Piotr Mróz

99-107

Krause on the concept of Gemüt and the phenomenology of subjectivity

Ricardo Pinilla Burgos

109-128

Kierkegaard's amphibolous conjunction of joy and sorrow and his literary theory

Alberto Carrillo Canán

129-137

Automata in the looking-glass

Gaetano B. Ronsivalle

139-158

Leibniz's preformationism

Between metaphysics and biology

Justin E. Smith

161-192

A temporality of dasein (Heidegger) and a time of the other (Levinas)

Aleksandra Pawliszyn

193-204

The time of life and the time of history

Aurelio Rizzacasa

205-210

Phenomenological approaches in the life and cognitive sciences

Lauro Galzigna, Michela Galzigna

211-214

Edelman's theory of neuronal group selection and reductionism

Bernard Feltz

215-222

The significance of art for human life from the viewpoint of ontological aesthetics

Jiro Watanabe

225-247

The aesthetic potential of the element of earth

Marzenna Jakubczak

249-260

Metaphysical longing

Karol Tarnowski

261-270

On the threshold of creativity

A hermeneutic interpretation of the myth of Narcissus

Margarete Durst

271-296

On philosophy and on expertise in philosophy ("philosophistics")

A fantastic narrative

Włodzimierz Pawliszyn

297-305

Music on the scene of life of the next century

Rimma Telcharova-Kurenkova

307-309

The philosophical "exposure" and "interpretation" of a musical creation

Carmen Cozma

311-316

Seed and growth

The art of Teresa Murak

Edyta Supińska-Polit

317-326

The ontology of the creative process

Ignacy Fiut

327-339

Roman Ingarden's analysis of the concepts of truth in literature

Gerald Nyenhuis

343-357

Myth, "thing" and understanding in Gadamer

Osvaldo Rossi

359-373

Art and temporality

Ricoeur's hermeneutic approach

Robert Sweeney

375-384

The literary work of art as the creative power in man

Danuta Ulicka

385-404

Index