Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology of Inter-Corporeal Selfhood. An Encounter with Scott L. Marrato, "The Incorporeal Self: Merleau-Ponty on Subjectivity"
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Intercorporeal Self: Merleau-Ponty on Subjectivity is an excellent study of the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, particularly his Phenomenology of Perception.The focal argument of this text is that subjectivity emerges both within the sentient body and the cultural space of language as an expressive transformation.This transformation depends upon an inter-bodily past of expression and a shared inter-subjective domain of language, but each of these fieldsnature and culture-need to be reconceived as matrices of difference, founding dimensions of intelligibility that can never take the form of already formed objects, natural laws, or ideal structures.To explain this, I will focus on Marratto's development of an ontological dynamics of temporality, a study of the "retrograde movement" 1 of truth in expression.This is a remarkable book, both as a treatise on the nature of subjectivity, and as a study of Merleau-Ponty's place in contemporary continental philosophy.With subtle attention to the ontological implications of Merleau-Ponty's method, this book makes a compelling case that Merleau-Ponty's works are cohesive, and that the philosopher's earlier focus on consciousness and phenomenology was already the development of a post-metaphysical ontology.Indeed, Marratto not only demonstrates a way to rethink the mind-body relationship, and the
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.042 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.013 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".