Simon Porcella
Alumnus of the University of Wollongong, where I completed a master's degree by thesis in Philosophical Hermeneutics and Analytic Philosophy under the supervision of David Simpson in 2001. My thesis "Gadamer and Davidson in Dialog" showed how the philosophies of Donald Davidson and that of Hans-Georg Gadamer agree in fundamental respects by describing how they each share a common position with regards to metaphor, epistemology, truth, and mind.
Research spans Analytic and Continental Philosophy, with a focus on a range of subjects including Epistemology, Ethics, Language and Interpretation, Structuralism, and Dialectics with an Analytical Hermeneutic approach to philosophical inquiry.
Committed to advancing academic discourse through rigorous clarity and in research and collaboration.
Work centers on dialectical reason and the fusion of analytic and hermeneutic perspectives.
Supervisors: David Simpson
Research spans Analytic and Continental Philosophy, with a focus on a range of subjects including Epistemology, Ethics, Language and Interpretation, Structuralism, and Dialectics with an Analytical Hermeneutic approach to philosophical inquiry.
Committed to advancing academic discourse through rigorous clarity and in research and collaboration.
Work centers on dialectical reason and the fusion of analytic and hermeneutic perspectives.
Supervisors: David Simpson
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The dialogue between a young boy, Salviati, and his father explores the philosophical concepts of meaning and transitivity in Jacques Maritain’s thought. Set in a serene garden in Castalia, Salviati seeks to deepen his understanding of Maritain’s critique of Descartes, focusing on how meaning is transmitted from objects in the world to the mind.
Through the discussion, Salviati realizes that the division between subject and object, as proposed by Descartes, is bridged by a process of transitivity, allowing meaning to permeate both the mind and the external world. The dialogue concludes with Salviati experiencing a meditative awakening, perceiving the world as filled with pure, unmediated meaning.
Papers by Simon Porcella
The essay claims mythological support and interprets cross-civilizational archetypical stories to bring a coherence to the notion that it was Woman that first spoke.
I then look at the function of the ineffable in nature and the essence of existence. The reason for doing this is to locate an unknown which makes sense to the negative atheist. Not that the negative atheist believes that anything supernatural resides here—within this unknowability—but only to reveal where the negative atheist is inclined to place the existence of such an infinitely potential creative capacity that might otherwise be known to her as 'the fundamental essence and nature of all existence'. This validates the position of negative atheism as having a valid object of inquiry, without merely being another empty vacant kind of skepticism.
The aim of the essay is not to argue for or against the existence of God but to clarify terms only, and to explore a little what such clarification means for the meaning of meaning.
The dialogue between a young boy, Salviati, and his father explores the philosophical concepts of meaning and transitivity in Jacques Maritain’s thought. Set in a serene garden in Castalia, Salviati seeks to deepen his understanding of Maritain’s critique of Descartes, focusing on how meaning is transmitted from objects in the world to the mind.
Through the discussion, Salviati realizes that the division between subject and object, as proposed by Descartes, is bridged by a process of transitivity, allowing meaning to permeate both the mind and the external world. The dialogue concludes with Salviati experiencing a meditative awakening, perceiving the world as filled with pure, unmediated meaning.
The essay claims mythological support and interprets cross-civilizational archetypical stories to bring a coherence to the notion that it was Woman that first spoke.
I then look at the function of the ineffable in nature and the essence of existence. The reason for doing this is to locate an unknown which makes sense to the negative atheist. Not that the negative atheist believes that anything supernatural resides here—within this unknowability—but only to reveal where the negative atheist is inclined to place the existence of such an infinitely potential creative capacity that might otherwise be known to her as 'the fundamental essence and nature of all existence'. This validates the position of negative atheism as having a valid object of inquiry, without merely being another empty vacant kind of skepticism.
The aim of the essay is not to argue for or against the existence of God but to clarify terms only, and to explore a little what such clarification means for the meaning of meaning.