By: Jay Dyer [Note: This is an old paper I wrote that still holds up.  It shows the need modern philosophy has for metaphysics and exemplarism.] By: Jay The famed...

By: Jay Dyer (2010) (c) copyright, all rights reserved. A.J. Ayer and other logical positivists have contended that the problem of perception is a central issue in modern epistemology and...

By: Jay Dyer For Husserl, the perception of objects is necessarily inadequate due to what he and Merleau-Ponty describe as the “horizon.” This refers to the hiddenness of any object...

By: Jay    The first account Merleau-Ponty deals with in the selections from Phenomenology of Perception as found in Vision and Mind is the notion that sense-perception is identified with the...

By: Jay Dyer I propose a modified form of the transcendental argument for God’s existence. Not that it’s different, but it’s an aspect to the argument I’ve never seen previous...

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A Response to Kant’s Metaphysical Challenge By: Jay Dyer Modern philosophy since Immanuel Kant has tended to deny the possibility of making a synthetic a priori claim about experience. An...