Edmund Husserl

there was a legitimate ontological and epistemological distinction between appearances and the mind-independent world, Husserl 's phenomenology conflates appearances and reality.43 Although their views of what constitutes reality differ, Phenomenology seems committed to the direct realist, anti-representationalist view that reality appears to us.44 This is made most notable by Husserl 's anti-Kantian view that things themselves are not representative of a mind-independent reality but are…

The core of my paper will be to analyze the complex relationship between Kant's Transcendental Realism. I will begin by analyzing how Kant paved the way for phenomenological thinking. I will hope to show how the various key concepts of Kant's philosophy paved the way for phenomenological thinking. This includes the Copernican turn, the antinomies and Kant's denial of dogmatic metaphysics. I will argue that Kant effectively paved the way for phenomenology by claiming that the phenomenal realm is…

philosopher Descartes through the meditation; “that implies for Descartes a corresponding reformation of all the sciences, because in his opinion they are only non-self-sufficient members of the one all-inclusive science, and this is philosophy” (Husserl, 1982,…

because langueage like vision is privileged (Ponty). Edmund Husserl, the father of phenomennoly would refer to the givenness of languages ability to be in the world as an intentional background of human knowledge to have a sensible quality and intentions or nomadic poles (Husserl). Language’s nomadic poles are taken as givenness, yet modern psychology provides abstract examples which demonstrates their innateness supporting linguistic theories (Husserl)(Ohio State…

Part I: Ontological Dualism Implies Embodied Perception Merleau-Ponty is a French philosopher whom was greatly influenced by the earlier phenomenologists Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl (Moran & Mooney 2007). In his phenomenology Merleau-Ponty attempts to answer various questions surrounding human existence including questions concerning the constitution of a subject and inter-subjectivity. His inquiry begins by exploring the ideas of embodiment and perception. For Merleau-Ponty finding a…

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In his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant argues that because humans are only able to judge objectively, we are closed off from a greater perception and understanding of the world. Things in the phenomenal realm are based upon our interactions and experiences with objects whereas things in the noumenal realm are the simplified form of the things themselves and project the reality of the world in a way that humans are unable to see. Additionally, Kant attributes things in the phenomenal realm as…

military he joined his first activist party, the Social Democratic Party which would not be his last as he went on to join several other in the span of a few years. During his early twenties, he would meet and befriend Georg Lukacs, Horkheimer, and Edmund Husserl and several other notable intellectuals. He later joined the Frankfurt School and immigrated to the United States in 1934 as the Nazi rose to power in Germany. Between 1943 and 1950 he worked for the government as an analyst for the…

grounded in the philosophical writings of Husserlian (1970). Husserlian phenomenology provides a form of an eidetic science (i.e., the science of possibilities) for psychology to support empirical findings of a qualitative nature (Giorgi, 2009). Edmund Husserl, the father of phenomenology, claimed that every experience could be reduced to its essence or ‘essential possibility’ because, without this, the experience would be impossible (Giorgi, 2008). A major concept of Husserlian phenomenology is…

To say that Immanuel Kant 's work was influential would be an understatement. His work marked a paradigm shift in western philosophy with his infamous Copernican revolution. Both the analytic and continental traditions can be said to be a response to Kant 's ideas. Still today, Neo-Kantian thinking is still being applied to contemporary thinking today. However, Kant 's work is remembered more for its impact on philosophical thinking, rather than its modern applicability. In both traditions, Kant…