Questions tagged [husserl]
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (1859 – 1938) was a German philosopher associated with phenomenology.
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I dont understand the differences between Plato's Forms and Husserl's essence
So Plato's essence is universal essence existing independently of us. And Husserl's essence, despite being invariant they are not universal and does not exist beyond the conscious relation to the ...
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Reading Guides for Husserl's Logical Investigations?
Can anyone recommend a reading guide to accompany Husserl's Logical Investigations? I am not referring to general introductions to his thought, but specifically to the LI.
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The different Egos in Husserl's Cartesian Meditations
So I thought I had understood the different 'Egos', mainly the distinction between the psychological and transcendental Ego, in the text. But throughout meditation 2 it becomes a bit confusing to me, ...
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What is Husserl's "reductionist method"?
In Ideas, Husserl seems pretty convinced that phenomenology is a new science. He says that phenomenology is a descriptive science, and having read through Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception, ...
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Husserlian Critiques of Scheler
It’s known that although Max Scheler’s phenomenology was heavily inspired by Husserl, he was no student of Husserl. So, the two had disagreements on how to do phenomenology. While I’m acutely aware of ...
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What does Husserl mean by 'purity'?
I'm reading "Ideas" by Husserl, and there are several notions I'd like to crystallise or 'locate' within my own experience.
Kant also spoke of purity, and with him it was in terms of ...
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Husserl and Science
If Husserl is not concerned with proving that the external world exists unlike Descartes then how does his findings on the nature of consciousness help to provide indubitable foundations for all ...
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Questions on Phenomenology
This is from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/#DiscPhen
Section 4 paragraph 9
One of Heidegger’s most innovative ideas was his conception of the “ground” of being, looking to modes of ...
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Can someone explain some things that I am unsure of in this text?
This is a passage from a summary on Husserl’s philosophy from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/husserl/
This is on the last paragraph of section 6:
This deep-structure of intentional consciousness ...
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What is the distinction between Gegenstand and Objekt?
In German philosophy (particularly Kant and Husserl), the concepts Gegenstand and Objekt (and their conjugations Gegenständlichkeit and Objektivität) are used to describe very different things while ...
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Why is psychology a parallel to natural science?
This is from Husserl's Phenomenology which he wrote for the Encyclopedia Britannica:
It is by no means clear from the very outset, however, how far the idea of a pure psychology -as a psychological ...
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A question on Husserl and animals in relation to psychology
This is from Husserl's Phenomenology which he wrote for the Encyclopedia Britannica:
The scientific investigation of the bodies of animals fits within this area. By contrast, however, if the psychic ...
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Why is this a reformational claim?
This is from Husserl's Phenomenology, an article he wrote for the Encyclopedia Britannica:
Together with this philosophical phenomenology, but not yet separated from it, however, there also came into ...
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A few questions on Phenomenology
Can someone briefly explain:
What is the difference between Phenomenological, Transcendental and Eidetic reduction?
What the 'natural attitude means?
What it means to bracket the natural attitude?
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What are “intentionality”, “presence” and “taking as” with regards to Heidegger?
From Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Heidegger”:
Viewed in relation to Being and Time, the central philosophical theme in these early years is Heidegger's complex critical relationship with ...
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Is Husserl's transcendental ego God?
We will eventually come up against something that cannot be varied
without destroying that object as an instance of its kind. The
implicit claim here is that if it is inconceivable that an object of
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What is Camus' criticism of Husserl's phenomology and of Kierkegaard's thought?
I have not been able to grasp these concepts. Specifically, I am referring to the third chapter of the Myth of Sisyphus: "The philosophical suicide".
I have understood that Camus's critic on ...
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What are some refutations of Husserl’s anti-psychologism?
Husserl argues that psychologism fails through its inability to distinguish between objects of knowledge and acts of knowing, the act being a temporal and psychical process characterized by ...
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What does "pre-predicative" mean in the context of Husserl's Cartesian Meditations <52>?
In Husserl's Cartesian Mediatations <52>
The term pre-predicative is introduced in this way:
Yet there is one more thing that should be brought out, to <52>
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What are the "Acts" Discussed in Husserl's "Logical Investigations"?
I am reading Dan Zahavi's Husserl's Phenomenology with a specific focus on his treatment of Logical Investigations. He describes Logical Investigations as "providing a new foundation for pure ...
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Does Phenomenology Reject The Existence of Mediating Concepts?
I am reading Robert Sokolowski's Introduction to Phenomenology. He makes phenomenology out to be inherently realist: when we intend something, we intend the thing itself (not the "idea" or &...
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What did Husserl mean by logically composite?
In the philosophy of arithmetic on page 119, Husserl says that only things that are logically composite can be given formal logical definition. He does not define and term beyond that and only gives ...
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Trying to reconstruct the reasoning leading to the intentionality of consciousness ( Husserl's phenomenology)
I would like to have feedbacks on the following way to reconstruct Husserl's reasong in Cartesian Meditations as to the relationship of consciousness to its objects, and more generally to the world.
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Phenomenology wiihout phenomena
I googled the phrase, and only got an essay on Stumpf, one I cannot read and which does not include the phrase in the freely available content.
I then looked at the SEP article for Stumpf, whom I had ...
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Help reading Husserl?
Does anyone have reading/comprehension tips and tricks for reading Husserl in pdf format? I've tried highlighting and summary notes on the sides but, its not enough. I don't feel like I'm able to hold ...
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Sartre's "The transcendence of the ego"
In this text there are parts of Kant that Sartre refers to that I don't think I fully understand.
What parts of Kant would I have to refer to to understand where Sartre is coming from?
He refers to ...
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Can we imagine a perfect circle?
Applied mathematicians often work with circles, but I'm guessing it's an abstraction that cannot save all the empirical data. Can we conceive of a perfect circle in our visual field -- as apparently ...
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Did Sellars's argument against the Myth of the Given successfully challenge Husserl's phenomenology?
Sellars's critique of "the myth of the given" is a potent argument that weakens fundamentalism in epistemology. Edmund Husserl regarded "the given" as being "unconditionally/...
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How does one perform phenomenological reduction?
I have done some preliminary reading on phenomenology and Husserl via basic sources.
How is phenomenological reduction performed?
I understand the steps involved but I don't understand how to ...
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From Sartre's Being and Nothingness, what is the difference between reflective consciousness and self-reflective consciousness?
I am currently writing a philosophy paper for one of my graduate courses and one of the questions posed is "how can consciousness be pre-reflective, reflective, and self-reflective?"
My ...
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Husserl's Logical Investigations volume II as entry point for Phenomenology
I have read that Edith Stein (in one of her biographies), got introduced to Phenomenology by being told to read Husserl's Logical Investigations volume II, and she had a background in Psychology (she ...
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Purpose and examples of Phenomenological analysis (transcendental reduction)
I would like to ask whether there are any concrete end-to-end examples that you are aware of, and ones that I can go through that are considered correct transcripts of the transcendental reduction ...
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In Being and Time, was Heidegger doing phenomenology, using the phenomenological reduction?
In Being and Time, was Heidegger doing phenomenology, using the phenomenological reduction? If so, how routinely, or even when?
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Are Husserl and Heidegger's conceptions of finitude in any way similar?
Reading through Husserl's "Crisis of European Sciences" and "Vienna Lectures", I noticed he made frequent reference to the "infinite task" of the modern mathematical tradition kickstarted by Galileo. ...
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Constitutive Identity
What is the term for the alteration or change in self-indentification consequent to interaction with an authority or professional? For example, you are stopped on the street by a policeman. By his ...
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Husserl's Cartesian Mediations
What should I read to get a clear outlook of Husserl's Cartesian Meditations? I tried reading "Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations" but it's not going too well. I ...
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Have any philosophers put forth phenomenological arguments for immortality besides Husserl?
For reference, here's a link to Paul MacDonald's 2007 paper on Husserl and immortality:
http://www.ipjp.org/online-issues/send/30-edition-2-september-2007/119-paulmacdonald7e2
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What does Husserl say about 'space'?
What does Husserl say about 'space'?
I'd like to know what it's real / ideal status is, especially, and if agreeing with him on what "space" is precludes all forms of scientific realism.
Id there's ...
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Where did Husserl say that in quantum mechanics spatial localisation is no longer a principle of individualisation?
According to Philosophy & Physics edited by Bernard d'Espagant:
I am thinking of a text by Husserl, who was quite removed from physics, who said that the fundamental problem posed by QM is that ...
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Starting on Husserl and Merleau-Ponty
I'm taking undergraduate studies in Social Sciencies and because of a research I'm working on I started to read Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception and realized that this book requires a ...
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For Husserl, how can we know things in themselves?
I don't quite understand the nature of "going back to things themselves". How does Husserl break away from Kant?
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Why is Psychologism invalid according to Husserl?
I am having a difficult time understanding the critique of psychologism. From Dan Zahavi's book Husserl's Phenomonology:
Logic (as well as, for instance, mathematics and formal ontology)
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Are Graham Harman's concealed real objects "inaccessible" or merely "not fully accessible in a given moment"?
I am reading Graham Harman's "Quadruple Object", but having difficulties in following the connection he makes between the Real Object and the Sensual Qualities.
He starts forming his quadruple ...
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In what ways is Merleau-Ponty following (late/unpublished) Husserl?
... or, to put it differently: to what extent has Husserl already ancitipated in his unpublished writings what Merleau-Ponty has been developing later?
The standard narrative goes that Husserl ...
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Are there philosophic discussions of Husserl's dissertation?
Husserl wrote a doctoral thesis on calculus of variations. It does not seem to be available on the Göttinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum and so far as I have found the online collections of his works ...
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In what fundamental ways, if any, does Husserl break with Kant?
I've read only slim secondary works on Husserl some time ago, and recently started "The Crisis in the European Sciences." So far, the framework seems faithfully Kantian. Husserl, for example, ...
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What does Husserl mean by essences?
Husserl insists on two "reductions" in his pure phenomenology. The second reduction is a separation of the existence of ourselves and our attitudes and "their observable essences (Taylor Carman , ...
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How does Husserl's "bracketing" secure a truly presuppositionless study?
I'm reading from an anthology of essays by and about Husserl (collected by Joseph Kockelmans):
More specifically, Husserl makes a strong argument against some of the internal problems of various ...
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Wittgenstein and Husserl
If Wittgenstein's Tractatus is right that:
He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly. (TLP 6.54).
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. (TLP 7).
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Can we intend anything that exists and must it exist partly in that intention
Can we intend anything, even nothingness, or my own death, or an empty world?
And if so do these things exist in their intention, as something interior to the thought about them?
I ask because it ...
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