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Has brain-to-brain communication been addressed in the literature, and if so, is there a fundamental reorganization of philosophy required?
What exactly do we mean by "brain-to-brain communication"?
I can already communicate with other brains in a variety of ways - speech, signs, demeanour, and so on.
Even if there were a new ...
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How does Husserl's "bracketing" secure a truly presuppositionless study?
Husserl is perhaps the last truly classical figure in epistemology, he still believed in objective content of knowledge, the same for "angels and centaurs" as for humans, and the possibility ...
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Why are Dan Dennett and his heterophenomenonology largely ignored by the Wikipedia and Stanford articles on phenomenology?
There is absolutely nothing which necessitates that Wikipedia articles are accurate, let alone balanced and/or comprehensive. It is a site that relies upon user input and moderator checks which the ...
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What are some good books on phenomenology for a mathematician?
I recommend Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. About third way into the book he starts to deal more and more with phenomenology — he approaches the topic through our use of language and ...
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What are some good books on phenomenology for a mathematician?
Edmund Husserl is one of the founders of phenomenology. Husserl has even studied mathematics, but afterwards switched to philosophy.
Husserl has published Philosophy as Rigorous Science besides many ...
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What are some good books on phenomenology for a mathematician?
Phenomenology has a narrow meaning in contemporary philosophy as a style of philosophical inquiry originated by Husserl, and I do think that it is particularly congenial to a mathematician. Husserl ...
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Does consciousness exist?
There is a kind of epistemological ‘duality’ to our thinking about consciousness.
In 'The Puzzle of Conscious Experience', the philosopher David Chalmers describes the 'Easy Problem of Consciousness' ...
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Why are Dan Dennett and his heterophenomenonology largely ignored by the Wikipedia and Stanford articles on phenomenology?
I'm just going to affirm what's in the comments. Neither the IEP's article on Phenomenology nor the SEP's article on Phenomenology contain references to Dennett at all, and the reason is simple. ...
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What does Husserl mean by essences?
Absolutely not. Heidegger's "essence of Dasein" is really a misnomer to make a point, by stating that Dasein's essence is existence he upends the traditional use of "essence" as form, idea, the ...
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Who or what is the being for whom Being is a question for Heidegger?
"Being and Time is a long and complex book."
We may say that Heidegger's aim in his work is to discover what is common (more fundamental) to various different questions (inquiries) about the ...
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Did Sellars's argument against the Myth of the Given defeat Husserl's phenomenology?
There is something to it, but things are more complicated. Sellars was not arguing against Husserl specifically, it is unlikely that he was even familiar with his phenomenology. He does draw on the ...
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Can we imagine a perfect circle?
Chalmers does not mean ordinary visual imagination (our faculty to create representations which faintly resemble real visual sense impressions). Instead he means something like forming a concept, ...
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Are there secular philosophers who argue for predetermined and given meaning/value in life and essentialism?
Yes, there are such thinkers. I will mention four of them.
One is Rene Guenon. He was a French philosopher from the 20th century, and he went against the grain of moderns thought as such. He thought ...
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Who are some philosophers who explore the possibility/impossibility of the intimacy of understanding others?
This is akin to a major question in philosophy that is still being debated called "The Problem of Other Minds". The two broad questions within this debate are:
The Thick Question: How can ...
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If we did have a proven 'Theory of Everything' from physics, would it help to know why there is a universe?
If we had a correct theory of literally everything then yes it would by definition explain the origin of the universe, consciousness, and every other problem. However, the term Theory of Everything ...
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What are some good books on phenomenology for a mathematician?
I agree that Husserl would be the obvious starting point. He is considered the founder of modern "phenomenology" and his interest was originally in working out the origins of mathematics by "returning ...
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Are Lockean Ideas phenomenological?
Regarding the connection between Idealism and Phenomenology
The Phenomenology of Mind (sic!) by Hegel is considered to be the climax of German Idealism (and probably idealism as a whole) and uses many ...
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What does the "essence of time" mean for Merleau-Ponty?
Merleau-Ponty is a phenomenologist so his received view is "essence" in a Husserlian sense, as the ideal core of an intentional object, see What does Husserl mean by essences? However, he is also an ...
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Who or what is the being for whom Being is a question for Heidegger?
According to Wikipedia this being "for whom Being is a question for Heidegger" would be ourselves:
Dasein ... is a German word that means "being there" or "presence" (German: da "there"; sein "...
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Who or what is the being for whom Being is a question for Heidegger?
"Ontological inquiry is indeed more primordial, as over against the ontical inquiry of the positive sciences."
– Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, §3.
Heidegger is an ontologist. To define ...
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Explanation of Dasein and Da-sein in Heidegger
First, one needs to understand how Dasein should be understood in Sein und Zeit (SuZ in what follows). It stems from the German word "Dasein" that can be translated by "existence". ...
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To what extent can one admit that language is an adequate outlet for explicit feelings and experiencings?
You have thoughts and feelings. I have them too. How do we know how they interrelate? We can't ever be sure. Your experience of happiness may differ from mine, for example. Words, tonality and ...
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How does Husserl's "bracketing" secure a truly presuppositionless study?
The method you're describing does not at least to me sound like the goal of Husserl's bracketing or Epoché.
You state:
1) Notice the assumptions as they appear to oneself primordially 2)Suspend ...
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In what ways is Merleau-Ponty following (late/unpublished) Husserl?
Good question, except that the answer is worth at least one or two doctoral theses. The question is way above my own amateur level, so perhaps this should just be a comment.
However, as far as I ...
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Why is Sartre averse to "images" in consciousness?
To understand this passage, we have to note that Sartre inherits Husserl's theory of intentionality. For Husserl, all intentional mental states have both a content and an object. I am directed at the ...
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Books to begin Husserl's Phenomenology
Of the three texts you have,
I think the easiest place to start will be with the Cartesian Meditations.
Husserl studies is a messy business with subtle differences in the nature of the epoche and ...
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What are some good books on phenomenology for a mathematician?
You might be interested in Gian-Carlo Rotas "Indiscrete Thoughts". Apart from his work in mathematics he also happened to publish in phenomenology. The book has some fascinating essays on 20th ...
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Are there some facets of perceptual experience which cannot be characterized as conceptual?
I take your term "conceptual" to really be getting at representational, where information is really being represented and "deliberated" on. Allow me to give some examples:
Many studies show (as ...
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What is meant by transcendental phenomenology?
I know that this question has since been answered, but I think that some parts of the terminology have not been addressed. Transcendental phenomenology is that which is possible as a consequence of ...
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How many different usages of being is there in this short paragraph of Heidegger?
The original German is (from the Introduction, par. 2):
Hinsehen auf, Verstehen und Begreifen von, Wählen, Zugang zu sind
konstitutive Verhaltungen des Fragens und so selbst Seinsmodi eines
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