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Särman, S. (2025). Double Motivation, Gods and Psychic Organs in the Iliad. American Journal of Philology, 146(2), 243-271
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Double Motivation, Gods and Psychic Organs in the Iliad
2025 (English)In: American Journal of Philology, ISSN 0002-9475, E-ISSN 1086-3168, Vol. 146, no 2, p. 243-271Article in journal (Refereed) Accepted
Abstract [en]

There are two especially important problems surrounding agential causation in the Iliad: first, whether divine causation or motivation behind human actions and thoughts undermines human agency, and, second, whether the causation or motivation of psychic organs undermines the agency of the unified self. In this essay, I first defend an interpretation according to which a solution commonly applied to the first problem—“double determination”—can be seen as relevant also for the second one. Second, I sketch a proposal for how psychological indeterminacy can be integrated into a constructive account of Iliadic ethics. On this proposal, a certain flexibility vis-à-vis agency can be considered an ethically constructive attitude.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025
National Category
Philosophy Philology
Research subject
Greek
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-557539 (URN)
Funder
Wenner-Gren Foundations
Available from: 2025-05-28 Created: 2025-05-28 Last updated: 2025-06-02
Landau, D., Särman, S., Mukherjee, M., Hoogendoorn, A. & Wagner, J. (2024). The Covers Are The Eyelids: Filming of projections on objects as a method for creative ‘concrescence’. Screenworks, 14(2)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Covers Are The Eyelids: Filming of projections on objects as a method for creative ‘concrescence’
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2024 (English)In: Screenworks, E-ISSN 2514-3123, Vol. 14, no 2Article in journal (Refereed) [Artistic work] Published
Abstract [en]

How can we create a collaborative filmmaking method within the creative constraints caused by COVID pandemic-related lockdowns?

The Covers Are the Eyelids was made using a method of projecting moving images onto objects and then re-filming the projections. The method of synthesis of components is made visible as the multiple layers can be seen simultaneously. This layering through a video projection method was used to combine components made by practitioners from diverse disciplines. The combination of components is a creative event that results in the frames towards the completed film. The film could be written about in many ways. This text concentrates on the layering-in because this filmmaking method produced a mode of collaborative practice.

This text describes the practical method of creative collaboration involving filming layered projections onto objects. Moreover, it outlines the creative combination involved in the selection of projected images and objects. The finished film explores this method of creative imbrication through practice. This imbrication can be understood as a practice which makes visible a ‘production of novel togetherness’, which Alfred North Whitehead terms ‘concrescence’ (1928/1978 pg.31). The core proposition is that the film acts as a tacit exposition of a process of concrescence. To make this claim, we first summarise the proposition of concrescence from Whitehead, we then articulate the filmmaking challenge as a research question. In the methods section we describe the creative practices that come together in filmmaking. In the outcomes section, we further apply Whitehead’s proposition of concrescence in order to articulate how the process is made apparent by the method of filming projections.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
UWE - University of the West of England, Bristol, 2024
Keywords
projection, film, collaboration, artistic research, eyes, concrescence
National Category
Literary Composition
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-535315 (URN)10.37186/swrks/14.2/8 (DOI)
Available from: 2024-07-24 Created: 2024-07-24 Last updated: 2024-10-07Bibliographically approved
Särman, S. (2023). Demystifying Emotions – A Typology of Theories in Psychology and Philosophy. AGNES MOORS, 2022.Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. i–xviii + 382 pp, £95.00 (hb) [Review]. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 40(2), 379-381
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Demystifying Emotions – A Typology of Theories in Psychology and Philosophy. AGNES MOORS, 2022.Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. i–xviii + 382 pp, £95.00 (hb)
2023 (English)In: Journal of Applied Philosophy, ISSN 0264-3758, E-ISSN 1468-5930, Vol. 40, no 2, p. 379-381Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
John Wiley & Sons, 2023
Keywords
emotions, philosophy, psychology, theory
National Category
Philosophy
Research subject
Philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-487852 (URN)10.1111/japp.12634 (DOI)000873295100001 ()
Funder
Wenner-Gren Foundations, UPD2021-0040
Available from: 2022-11-03 Created: 2022-11-03 Last updated: 2024-05-22Bibliographically approved
Särman, S. (2023). Essence, Existence, and Being: An Inconsistency in Spinoza’s Metaphysics?. Review of Metaphysics, 77(1), 29-55
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Essence, Existence, and Being: An Inconsistency in Spinoza’s Metaphysics?
2023 (English)In: Review of Metaphysics, ISSN 0034-6632, E-ISSN 2154-1302, Vol. 77, no 1, p. 29-55Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The author explores whether Spinoza can consistently maintain two doctrines which he espouses in his Ethics. The first doctrine is the equivalence between perfection, reality, being, and essence. The second doctrine is the Metaphysical Difference between that in which essence and existence are identical (God) and those things for which essence and existence are distinct (everything but God). The article is structured as follows. First, the author shows that these two key doctrines apparently clash. Second, she shows two ways in which this clash can be avoided. The first way consists in drawing a line between mere being and existence. This reading of Spinoza has sometimes been called “Platonist” in the secondary literature. The second way consists in denying that the Metaphysical Difference cuts reality at its joints. Instead, the Metaphysical Difference, on this reading, differentiates between appearances (those things in which essence and existence come apart) and reality (that thing in which they are one). This reading of Spinoza has sometimes been called Eleatic in the secondary literature. The author concludes by suggesting that, if the Spinozist rejects both the Eleatic and the Platonist approach, she is obliged to find another way to salvage her system.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
The Philosophy Education Society, Inc., 2023
National Category
Philosophy
Research subject
Philosophy, with specialization in history of philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-511679 (URN)10.1353/rvm.2023.a906811 (DOI)001460670900002 ()
Funder
Wenner-Gren Foundations
Available from: 2023-09-14 Created: 2023-09-14 Last updated: 2025-06-18Bibliographically approved
Särman, S. (2023). Tianxia: att tänka en världsgemenskap [Review]. Nya Argus, 116(1-2), 18-22
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Tianxia: att tänka en världsgemenskap
2023 (Swedish)In: Nya Argus, ISSN 0027-7126, Vol. 116, no 1-2, p. 18-22Article, book review (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Garantiföreningen för Nya Argus, 2023
Keywords
Zhao Tingyan, tianxia, recension
National Category
Philosophy
Research subject
Philosophy, with specialization in history of philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-496289 (URN)
Available from: 2023-02-09 Created: 2023-02-09 Last updated: 2023-02-09Bibliographically approved
Särman, S. (2022). Spinoza's Religion:  A New Reading of the Ethics by Claire Carlisle (review) [Review]. Review of Metaphysics, 76(302), 347-348
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Spinoza's Religion:  A New Reading of the Ethics by Claire Carlisle (review)
2022 (English)In: Review of Metaphysics, ISSN 0034-6632, E-ISSN 2154-1302, Vol. 76, no 302, p. 347-348Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
The Philosophy Education Society, 2022
Keywords
Spinoza, religion, philosophy
National Category
Philosophy
Research subject
Philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-491830 (URN)10.1353/rvm.2022.0070 (DOI)000936103400007 ()
Funder
Wenner-Gren Foundations, UPD2021-0040
Available from: 2022-12-24 Created: 2022-12-24 Last updated: 2023-04-04Bibliographically approved
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