Questions tagged [phenomenology]
Phenomenology is a philosophical movement associated with Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Paul Sartre. It is also a philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness.
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What is the connection between Hegel's "world of senses" "1st supersensible world" & "2nd supersensible world"?
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In the Phenomenology of Spirit, in the chapter "Force and Understanding" Hegel claims that the understanding (Verstand) encounters the 2nd law, which in turn creates the 2nd ...
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What philosopher regarded the end and purpose of human life to be in relationships with other individuals?
I remember in my undergrad being taught about some philosopher who regarded the whole end and purpose of human existence to be primarily that of relationship with other people. I dont remember if he ...
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Does all art have a sentiment?
It occurred to me that when e.g. reading poetry, I attach a lot of significance to a kind of sentiment. It seems independent of how genteel the work is.
I am interested in finding a way of thinking ...
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Kant's transcendental apperception and 'ipseity' in phenomenology
In the writings of various phenomenologists, the concept of 'ipseity' is widely discussed. As far as I can make out from various sources (e.g. Zahavi, Subjectivity and Selfhood, esp. chapter 5), ...
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Is Psychoanalysis a Type of Phenomenology?
Psychoanalysis—be it Freudian, Jungian or Lacanian—is concerned with how reality is experienced by the subject as affected by his/her unconscious wishes, desires, sometimes even by archetypal myths, ...
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What is the difference between world and universe?
I encounter the terms "world" and "universe" in various types of philosophy. I haven't paid close attention, but it seems "world" is used more phenomenologically and ...
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Can someone help with these passages Sartre's BeIng and Nothingness on Knowledge?
P295 ‘The for itself does not exist subsequently to know; neither can we say that it exists only in so far it knows or is known…regulated by particular bits of Knowledge.’
P296 ‘to say that there is ...
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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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Maurice Blanchot's view on death?
Can someone please explain in simple terms what are the two types of death that Maurice Blanchot talked about? I came across an article about it on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy but I don't ...
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Is it possible to dissolve the hard problem of consciousness?
In the positivist tradition, it is common to dissolve certain ideas as being meaningless and not worth further consideration. Roughly, the statements corresponding to those elements of our mental ...
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Why Dasein has only a pre-ontological Being rather than an ontological Being?
In the book Being and Time, Heidegger wrote that:
We have already intimated that Dasein has a pre-ontological Being as
its ontically constitutive state.
It's intuitive to me only when I thought ...
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How does Berkeley's idealism differ from others that might be called idealist
Having read Berkeley's work, I am aware of his theory, and definitely disagree with large parts of it - I would like to know how his idealism compares with that of other philosophers, particularly ...
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Reference suggestions - Contemporary Western Philosophy
I want to read following topics
Moore, Russell and Early Wittgenstein: Defence of Commonsense; Refutation of Idealism; Logical Atomism; Logical Constructions; Incomplete Symbols; ...
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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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Is Hume talking about noumena in section 12 of the Enquiry?
So I'm almost done with the Enquiry and came across something in this section that reminded me of Kant's phenomena and noumena. If this is the case, I'm just curious, why hadn't anyone made this ...
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Are there contemporary analytic defenders of the view that pattern/meaning is metaphysically fundamental and directly knowable?
Background: Much of philosophy since Kant has taken for granted that our basic experience of reality is structured by our cognitive apparatus, including notably our background conceptual frameworks. ...
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Is everything understood (semantics) within a language and is perception the first language?
And are all languages (math, set theory, whistling, English, Chinese, etc) somewhat inter-translatable? I'm sorry for the broad/overreaching question.
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Ontic/Ontological as parallel to a posteriori/a priori?
Heidegger makes the distinction between the ontic (concerning beings themselves) and the ontological (the being of beings, being as such).
Would it be wise to say that the ontic covers the contingent ...
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Differences between Being, Existing, Ontical and Existential in "Being and Time"
I am trying to understand the differences between Being, Ontical and Existential. What are they trying to imply by themselves, separately?
Ontical seems to mean "physical existence".
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What philosophical works explore the concept of solitude?
I am currently working on the solitude of old people during the pandemic time. I wonder if there is any philosophical work that explores what solitude is and how it emerges from different perspectives....
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Are there any philosophers associated with phenomenology and existentialism that argue that death should not matter to an individual?
I have mainly been focussing upon Heidegger in relation to death and the way in which he believes it is of great importance because in order to live authentically one must 'be-towards-death'. surley ...
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How do we think about absences?
The notion of intentional content as distinct from intentional object
is also important in relation to the issue of thought about and
reference to non-existent objects. Examples of this include ...
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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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What's the difference between ontical and ontological?
I looked it up on Wikipedia and got this:
Ontical refers to a particular area of Being, whereas ontological
ought to refer to Being as such.
Ontic vs. Ontological
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Was there any valid criticism of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit?
I only saw criticisms levied against him from people who have never read the book, so I was wondering if there was any valid criticism levied against the ideas from the book.
Arthur Schopenhauer ...
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What were some of the criticisms levied against Hegel's phenomenology?
I am not talking about the criticisms from positivists who were generally against metaphysics and non-empirical claims, but criticisms from other metaphysicists and philosophers. I heard Hegel's ...
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I've heard that Hegel's view on how to attain absolute truth differed from Kant's. In what ways?
I think, from memory, Hegel said that the absolute truth can be known through a dialectical process between the object and the thing-in-itself. But, how does that differ from Kant's opinion on the ...
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To what extent is phenomenology capable of advancing empirically testable (i.e. falsifiable) hypotheses?
Otherwise, to the extent it cannot, what is its utility?
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Is this short summary of phenomenology accurate?
"Classical, pure phenomenology aims to comprehend “those structures of experience and understanding that permit different types of beings to show themselves as what they are.” It does this by ...
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Have any modern philosophers redone Descartes' Meditations?
With insights we get from the cognitive sciences, and advancement in philosophy in general (such as the coherentist theory of Truth) we would definitely do the Meditations differently.
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Have phenomenology influenced much of our contemporary science?
I'm reading the phenomenology page on IEP, which talks about the relation between phenomenology and science, and I must say, not that I haven't met with phenomenology before, but as it's presented on ...
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Difference between Husserl and Sartre on ego?
Have seen some sites like IEP. But still not clear about the difference.
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Textbook(s) on epistemology
I was following a course on Merleau-Ponty and realised from the first few readings that I knew too little about theories of truth to truly appreciate what I was reading. Are there any books I could ...
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Can we fit the worldhood of the world in the world we have in common?
Is 'world' perhaps a characteristic of Dasein's Being ? And in that
case, does every Dasein 'proximally' have its world ? Does not 'world'
thus become something 'subjective' ? How, then, can ...
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Question about Sartre's The Imaginary
I have been doing a course on edx.org entitled The Conscious Mind - A Philosophical Road Trip. It's a gentle beginner's guide to phenomenology, and I am a gentle beginner to philosophy in general (and ...
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Is there a phenomenology of two-dimensional linear perspective?
The advent of Brunelleschi's linear perspective, with a vanishing point at infinity, is said to place the observer at a "natural" position, as if looking through a window. And indeed we interpret the ...
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Is Phenomenology against the mathematization of the social sciences?
As I understand it, (correct me if I'm wrong) Husserl believed that the distinction between the mind and brain is violated when we consider the possibility of measuring the qualities of the former ...
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"The object of reflection./ L'objet de la réflexion." ( A 2016 " agrégation de philosophie " paper)
Source : Rapport de jury de l'agrégation externe de philosophie 2016 , présenté par Paul Mathias, Inspecteur Général de l'Education Nationale , page 15
https://philosophie.ac-versailles.fr/IMG/pdf/rj-...
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Sources for phenomenology?
I'm not in Philosophy, so I'm having a hard time looking for the article
T. Sheenan. The History of the Redaction of the Encyclopaedia Britannica article. Trans. Phen., pp. 36-59.
Does it exists ...
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Looking for a good online lecture series on Husserl's Ideas 1
I just started reading Husserl's ideas 1 and looking for a good lecture series to follow along with. Willing to pay, but would prefer a free resource on YouTube or the like. Also open to other ...
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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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A question in Phenomenology
I'm trying to understand Phenomenology better and I have a question that might be clarify it for me:
Let's assume that I'm looking at the stars during the night. What I see is that the stars are ...
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If there are no abstract entities, then what are they phenomenologically?
If there are no abstract entities, then what are they phenomenologically?
it is universally acknowledged that numbers and the other objects of
pure mathematics are abstract (if they exist), whereas ...
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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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Does Brassier say that perceptual objects are not paradigmatic objects?
Does Brassier say that perceptual objects are not paradigmatic objects? I think I stumbled on the claim he did, but didn't read, and have since given up on finding the phrase.
It would seem to make ...
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Can someone help me with the meaning of these passages in Sartre's Being and Nothingness on motion?
What do these passages mean, could someone please kindly clarify them.
‘Motion is the pure change of place affecting a this which remains otherwise unaltered as is shown clearly enough by our ...
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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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Is there a theory that trying to solve intuition and fear at the same time?
I'm looking for a school of thought or theory that solves these problems, preferably at once:
The way to make a profound, advanced knowledge more straightforward and imaginative, without having to ...
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Any chapter length study on the phenomenology of my reflection in a mirror?
Is there any chapter length study on the phenomenology of my reflection in a mirror? I'm just looking for a philosophical description of what's happening there, it has nothing to do with my (highly ...
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Senses without phenomenology: are they quales?
Can there be sense experience without phenomenological existence, in the Husserlian sense of the things themselves being given to consciousness?
Are they like something? Just as the smell of mint has ...
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