Edmund Husserl

Genealogie del senso. Deleuze Lettore Di Husserl

by Fabio Treppiedi

Saggio sulla donazione di senso e sulla genesi del signifcato a partire dalla critica deleuziana del trascendentale in Husserl, in "Giornale di Metafisica" 1/2010

Deleuze’s theory of paradoxical constitution of sense is closely connected to Husserl’s Sinngebung. The fundamental... more Deleuze’s theory of paradoxical constitution of sense is closely connected to Husserl’s Sinngebung. The fundamental element of this connection is the return to a stoic conception of meaning as something “expressed”. Through an analytical comparison between Deleuze’s Logic of sense and Husserl’s Idea I, this article describes Deleuze’s Auseinandersetzung regarding the problem of expression in Husserl. In this connection, in his reading of Logical researches, Ideas I and Cartesian meditations, in fact, Deleuze radically criticizes some Husserlian “presuppositions” that could not make it possible to break with doxa. Deleuze’s interpretation – which admittedly deforms Husserl’s theoretical stance – outlines a particular relationship between “expression” and “signification” that Husserl, according to Deleuze, had not seen: this relationship is based on the key rule of nonsense in the transcendental determinability of sense and signification.

Phenomenological Psychological Research as Science

by Marc Applebaum

Published in the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 2012 (43)

Husserl framed his phenomenological inquiries as a response to the historical moment in which he found himself—a... more Husserl framed his phenomenological inquiries as a response to the historical moment in which he found himself—a period of crisis in which, he argued, a pervasive attitude of skepticism threatened to undermine peoples’ trust in their capacity to discover meaning in individual and communal life through reasoned inquiry. Today, a range of naïve assumptions regarding the meaning of science present challenges to conveying a Husserlian approach to psychological research. This paper is intended to address a variety of assumptions which can be encountered when introducing students to Giorgi’s phenomenological psychological research method. These assumptions are: 1) That the meaning of “science” is exhausted by empirical science, and therefore qualitative research, even if termed “human science,” is more akin to literature or art than methodical, scientific inquiry; 2) That as a primarily aesthetic, poetic enterprise human scientific psychology need not attempt to achieve a degree of rigor and epistemological clarity analogous (while not equivalent) to that pursued by natural scientists; 3) That “objectivity” is a concept belonging to natural science, and therefore human science ought not to strive for objectivity because this would require “objectivizing” the human being; 4) That qualitative research must always adopt an “interpretive” approach, description being seen as merely a mode of interpretation. These assumptions are responded to from a perspective drawing primarily upon Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, but also upon Eagleton’s analysis of aestheticism.

Phenomenological Naturalism

by Roberto Di Letizia

Draft only

In this paper, I propose a new phenomenology-based approach to naturalization of mind which I have name... more In this paper, I propose a new phenomenology-based approach to naturalization of mind which I have name phenomenological naturalism. More specifically, I introduce four points which characterise that approach: (1) the phenomenological criticism against the reductionist views on the naturalization of mind which do not consider the conscious experience and the original intentionality; (2) the notion of phenomenology as a criticism of reason whose aim is to found a genuine scientific psychology, therefore phenomenology is not an a priori anti-naturalist philosophy; (3) the first step of the phenomenological naturalism which consists in grounding the naturalization of mind in phenomenology through the definition of the metaphysical conditions of the mind and the elaboration of a phenomenology-oriented view of nature; (4) the second step of the phenomenological naturalism is the naturalizing the mind which consists in finding a natural content of the phenomenological-metaphysical category of mind. My conclusion is that only a phenomenology-based science of mind, whose objects of study have been conceptualized by the phenomenology itself, can begin a justified naturalization of mind.

"An Almost Unheard-of Analogy"

by Kas Saghafi

Mythos Wissenschaft(lichkeit)?

by Harald Wiltsche

published in: Psycho-Logik. Jahrbuch für Psychotherapie, Philosophie und Kultur 6, 2011, 269-285.

Review Essay: Daniel Tyradellis: Untiefen. Husserls Begriffsebene zwischen Formalismus und Lebenswelt

by Harald Wiltsche

published in: Journal Phänomenologie 26, 2006, 110-114.

Review Essay: Sven-Eric Knudsen: Luhmann und Husserl. Systemtheorie im Verhältnis zur Phänomenologie

by Harald Wiltsche

published in: Journal Phänomenologie 28, 2008, 77-81.

How Essential are Essential Laws? A Thought Experiment on Physical Things and their Givenness in Adumbrations

by Harald Wiltsche

will appear in: Mertens, K. & Guenzler, I. (eds.): Denken, Fühlen, Handeln. Phänomenologie im Widerstreit der Methoden. Paderborn: Mentis 2013.

Vulnerability & the Time-Constituting Synthesis

by Emily K. S. Wilkins

I'm working here with Edmund Husserl's account of the structural role of living temporality, and testing its application to cases of severe trauma, in which aspects of the temporal structure appear to suffer "damages" (Brison 2002), (Levi 1989). Your feedback is appreciated!

La acción social posibilitada y limitada por la intersubjetividad

by José Carlos Rodríguez Toral

Ponencia publicada en 2011 como parte del III Congreso Internacional de Fenomenología y Hermenéutica, en la Universidad Andrés Bello de Santiago de Chile.

La notion husserlienne de multiplicité : au-delà de Cantor et Riemann

by Carlo Ierna

in Methodos 12, April 2012

The concept of a Mannigfaltigkeit in Husserl has been given various interpretations, due to its shifting role in his... more The concept of a Mannigfaltigkeit in Husserl has been given various interpretations, due to its shifting role in his works. Many authors have been misled by this term, placing it in the context of Husserl’s early period in Halle, while writing the Philosophy of Arithmetic, as a friend and colleague of Georg Cantor.Yet at the time, Husserl distanced himself explicitly from Cantor’s definition and rather took Bernhard Riemann as example, having studied and lectured extensively on Riemann’s theories of space. Husserl’s Mannigfaltigkeitslehre would then not be a Cantorian set-theory, but come rather closer to topology. Then, in the Prolegomena, Husserl introduces the idea of a pure Mannigfaltigkeitslehre as a meta-theoretical enterprise which studies the relations among theories, e.g. how to derive or found one upon another. When Husserl announces that in fact the best example of such a pure theory of manifolds is what is actually practiced in mathematics, this sounds slightly misleading. The pure theory of theories cannot simply be the mathematics underlying topology, but should rather be considered as a mathesis universalis. Indeed, while this might not have been fully clear yet in 1900/1901, Husserl will explicitly tie together the notions of pure theory of manifolds and mathesis universalis. The mathesis universalis in this sense is formal, a priori and analytic, as theory of theory in general. It is an analysis of the highest categories of meaning and their correlative categories of objects. In my paper I try to understand the development of the notion of Mannigfaltigkeit in Husserl’s thought from its mathematical beginnings to its later central philosophical role, taking into account the mathematical background and context of Husserl’s own development.

Instincts, A Husserlian Account

by James Mensch

Austrian Logical Realism? Brentano on States of Affairs

by Guillaume Fréchette

DRAFT ONLY, Final version forthcoming in Bonino, Cumpa, Jesson (eds), Defending Realism, Frankfurt, 201*

In the following paper, I will discuss the motives behind Franz Brentano’s judgment contents and the strategies... more In the following paper, I will discuss the motives behind Franz Brentano’s judgment contents and the strategies offered by him to support them, suggesting that most of these strategies – based on his treatment of true negative existential judgments – are not akin to logical realism in spirit. More generally, I would like to suggest in this paper that although there definitely is a realist concern in Austrian philosophy regarding states of affairs, reducing their introduction to a realist concern is misguided. As shown by the case of Brentano, states of affairs were not always introduced in order to answer the question of what makes our assertions true, but rather to provide a psychological account of judgments that would help to distinguish between the two basic classes of acts: presentations and judgments. I will suggest that Brentano’s way of dealing with states of affairs actually shares some similarities with the way nominalists’ strategies concerning states of affairs are sometimes conducted.

Naturalism and Ideology: Towards a Phenomenology of Political Discourse

by Gregory Cameron

Lefort's ‘Outline of the Genesis of Ideology in Modern Societies’ constitutes an important attempt to reinvigorate the... more Lefort's ‘Outline of the Genesis of Ideology in Modern Societies’ constitutes an important attempt to reinvigorate the notion of ideology through a critique of the Marxist use of the term while retaining the basic features of Marx's own understanding. In particular, Lefort attempts to understand the transformations through which ideology goes in non-bourgeois social forms. He achieves this primarily through a critique of the naturalism inherent in Marx's understanding of society and ideology. In this article, I argue that Lefort's understanding of ideology and his critique of Marx belong squarely within the phenomenological tradition, despite the fact that Lefort does not make this explicit. More importantly, I argue that there is a strong continuity between Lefort's understanding of ideology and Husserl of the ‘Vienna Lecture’. The article ends with a short application of these thoughts to ideology in the age of globalization.

Tabula Rasa and Human Nature

by Robbie Duschinsky

draft - forthcoming in Philosophy

It is widely believed that the philosophical concept of ‘tabula rasa’ originates with Locke’s Essay Concerning Human... more It is widely believed that the philosophical concept of ‘tabula rasa’ originates with Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding and refers to a state in which a child is as formless as a blank slate. Given that both these beliefs are entirely false, this article will examine why they have endured from the eighteenth century to the present. Attending to the history of philosophy, psychology, psychiatry and feminist scholarship it will be shown how the image of the tabula rasa has been used to signify an originary state of formlessness, against which discourses on the true nature of the human being can differentiate their position. The tabula rasa has operated less as a substantive position than as a whipping post. However, it will be noted that innovations in psychological theory over the past decade have begun to undermine such narratives by rendering unintelligible the idea of an ‘originary’ state of human nature.

Der phänomenologische Ursprung des Logischen: E. Krit. Analyse d. Phänomenolog. Grundlegung d. Logik in Edmund Husserls" Logischen …

by Bernward Grünewald

The Ego in the Fourth Cartesian Meditation

by Timothy Burns

La objetivación de la modernidad y su ruptura en la empatía

by Diego I. Rosales

Jean-Yves Lacoste:The Experience of Transcendence

by K Jason Wardley

From: 'Looking Beyond? Shifting Views of Transcendence in Philosophy, Theology, Art, and Politics' (Rodopi, 2012) ISBN:  9789042034730

This paper will examine Lacoste’s treatment of ethics, transcendence and theology, beginning first of all with the... more This paper will examine Lacoste’s treatment of ethics, transcendence and theology, beginning first of all with the relationship between phenomenology and transcendence in Lacoste’s work, specifically the issue of perception. As we shall see, for Lacoste, every phenomenon has the same right to be welcomed and described as any other: God does not differ from things in the world—both Deus and res can be semper maior. It will then discuss how, with reference to liturgy, the phenomenology of silence could relate to divine transcendence, ethics, and intersubjectivity.

From Marxian Objectivism toward Austrian Subjectivism: A Phenomenological Approach

by Xavier Meulders

Unabridged version of a paper to be delivered for the joint K.U.Leuven/UCLouvain seminar 'Ethics and Public Policy' (March 2012). Please do not quote.