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Shadows: a phenomenological analysis

dc.contributor.authorMorujão, Carlos A.
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-31T17:43:54Z
dc.date.available2021-03-31T17:43:54Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractShadows are intriguing phenomena. They do not have mass or energy. So, they are unable to have some basic characteristics of the objects of which they are shadows: they cannot move by themselves and they cannot experience the same kind of changes. At first sight, any theory of perception can skip this optical phenomenon or look at it only as a side-effect. Actually, in order to be seen objects must be illuminated and one of the consequences of this is that they project a shadow over the surrounding space. Is that all? In this paper I will argue that, from a phenomenological point of view (or at least from a Husserlian oriented phenomenology), shadows, with their specific hyletic data, must be considered as an element of the process of constitution of spatial-temporal objectivities. In other words, shadows no less than other predicates, like extension or hardness, although in a different manner, belong to the a priori structure of those objectivities. This means that their ontological status is quite different from that of fictitious objects or hallucinations. To show this I will draw mainly in Husserl’s Lesson Thing and Space, from 1907, and other unpublished texts during Husserl’s lifetime, like the second volume of the Ideas and the Lesson of 1925 on Psychological Phenomenology.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.2478/phainomenon-2020-0002pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn0874-9493
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/32439
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectShadowspt_PT
dc.subjectPerceptionpt_PT
dc.subjectPhenomenologypt_PT
dc.subjectHusserlpt_PT
dc.subjectConstitutionpt_PT
dc.titleShadows: a phenomenological analysispt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage39pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage17pt_PT
oaire.citation.titlePhainomenonpt_PT
person.familyNameMorujão
person.givenNameCarlos
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person.identifier.orcid0000-0001-9943-8229
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