The Creative Matrix of the Origins

Acknowledgements. The Theme. Inaugural Study. Section I: Color perception: an on-going convergence of reductionism and phenomenology; E.A. Carlson. The logical form of biological objects; N. Milkov. Reconciling descriptions of consciousness from within and from without; E.C. Wait. Nature, subjectivity and the life-world: elements in a comparative perspective on Husserl's Ideas II and the Crisis; K. Rokstad. Self-consciousness as fact, experience and value; a phenomenological reinterpretation; M. Golaszewska. Section II: Intersubjective parameters of the life process; M. Kule. On the individual (who acts and experiences?); W.K. Rogers. Human projects in the existential phenomenology of Sartre; P. Mróz. Krause on the concept of Gemüt and the phenomenology of subjectivity; R.P. Burgos. Kierkegaard's amphibolous conjunction of joy and sorrow and his literary theory; A.C. Canán. Automata in the looking-glass: self-consciousness, epigenetic development and mental models theory; G.B. Ronsivalle. Section III: Leibniz's performationism: between metaphysics and biology; J.E. Smith. A temporality of Dasein (Heidegger) and a time of the other (Levinas); A. Pawliszyn. The time of life and the time of history; A. Rizzacasa. Phenomenological approaches in the life and cognitive sciences; L. Galzigna, M. Galzigna. Edelman's theory of neuronal group selection and reductionism; B. Feltz. Section IV: The significance of art for human life from the viewpoint of ontological aesthetics; J. Watanabe. The aesthetic potential of the element of earth; M. Jakubczak. Metaphysical longing; K. Tarnowski. On the threshold of creativity: a hermeneutic interpretation ofthe myth of Narcissus; M. Durst. On philosophy and on expertise in philosophy; W. Pawliszyn. Music on the scene of life of the next century; R.A. Kurenkova. Philosophical 'exposure' and 'interpretation' of a musical creation; C. Cozma. Seed and growth: the art of Teresa Murak; E. Supinska-Polit. The ontology of creative process; I.S. Fiut. Section V: Roman Ingarden's analysis of the concepts of truth in literature; G. Nyenhuis. Myth, 'thing' and understanding in Gadamer; O. Rossi. Art and temporality &endash; Ricoeur's hermeneutic approach; R.D. Sweeney. The literary work of art as the creative power in man: on the margin of Roman Ingarden's theory of literary discourse; D. Ulicka. Index.