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What hasn’t been mentioned so far are 1)Phenomenological Intentionality. This is not a causal logic but an entirely different way of looking at meanin...

Because we stacked the deck, declaring that only what can be depicted in terms of predicate logic can be considered a real component of the uninverse....

“useful for the task at hand.” In other words , relative to an ongoing activity of significance and context of relevance. Which presupposes a subjecti...

They are applied like scaffolding to objects ( ‘things’) that are held to be enduringly self-identical. Without this assumption of enduring objective ...

There are those who disagree with you. “…if we look at what Wittgenstein actually does in the Philosophical Investigations and in his many manuscripts...

Yeah, I think the concept of ‘facts of reality’ is highly problematic for both Wittgenstein and phenomenology.

Yes, you are right. Let me go back to your earlier question. The hypothetico-deductive method that Popper popularized belongs to the ‘crisis’ that Hus...

His later work is a form of phenomenology, which dissolves the hard problem by showing the incoherence nod splitting apart what things are ( the factu...

I can’t help but think that in his alter work he did dissolve the hard problem.

Sounds like a reasonable project to me.

Descartes believed in God , and what’s more, he believed in a god that placed the faculty of perfect reason in our heads, via the pineal gland. Now, i...

To me this shows what happens when we go on first impressions rather than bothering to read the background material.

I dont think so. I think you’re directly contradicting Peirce. From the quote you citied, Peirce is suggesting Descartes sincerely believed in his met...

If you remember from Husserl’s work, Crisis of European Sciences, the hypothetico-deductive method as originally expounded by Bacon was expected to le...

I was profoundly impressed by Being and Time, but I think Husserl took the more radical leap, relative to what was being thought before him. Yes, he h...

This is indeed Zahavi’s stance, but I don’t believe it is Husserl’s, and it certainly isn’t Merleau-Ponty’s or Heidegger’s. Zahavi believes that the s...

It may be a bit simplistic to distinguish science as a single unified enterprise from philosophy in general or phenomenology in particular. Husserl ar...

Indeed. It’s interesting that Dreyfus’ reading of Merleau-Pony is also getting picked apart by embodied cognitive writers like Alva Noe.

Oh yeah, big time. Dreyfus wanted to turn heidegger into Kierkegaard. I think Heidegger makes some good points against Husserl , but they are much mor...

I was thinking the same thing. It shows, among others things , the gap between Anglo-American and continental styles of philosophical thinking, and ho...

I’m going to be lazy and quote Evan Thompson from his recent book: READERS FAMILIAR WITH MY EARLIER BOOK, The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Hum...

I put Searle in a similar category to Dennett concerning his understanding of phenomenology, and unfortunately Hubert Dreyfus also. I say unfortunatel...

Depend on whose phenomenology you have in mind. Husserl, the originator of modern phenomenology, was quite determinate on knowledge claims. The only a...

I guess you don’t consider the phenomenologists, Wittgenstein, Heidegger or Nietzsche to be true philosophers then.

Yes, but the question that phenomenology asks is whether we need to recognize that talking about biology or neurology is not departing from the ground...

Sartre considered himself a phenomenologist but was callled an existentialist by many. There are no clear-cut boundaries between the two since there i...

Does it help to know the secret handshake?

Husserl says that we can passively give in to group consensus assumptions concerning the relative legimacy of an individual’s authority. Or we can tak...

Matthew Ratcliffe writes: Dennett, in describing his own conception of phenomenology, appeals to the Sellarsian contrast between scientific and manife...

Could you elaborate a bit? I do t see phenomenology as restricting itself to some special category of experience( subjective vs objective). On the con...

It is a gross misunderstanding of Husserlian phenomenology, an error that neither Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty nor Derrida ever made. There are many impor...

There are religious approaches within phenomenology , but both these and the non-religious versions avoid splitting apart the subjective and the objec...

Except claiming the subjective as ‘quite distinct’ from the objective is precisely what phenomenology is arguing against.

Which is why Descartes wasn’t pretending, any more than researchers are pretending when they use what they learn from pathological conditions to shed ...

As a good phenomenologist I begin by doubting the unquestioned existence of the world , including other persons. “The epoche creates a unique sort of ...

If we are good philosophers, we should doubt those things, because there are many brain conditions that show us what we at one time thought to be indu...

No more than philosophers of mind are pretending when they invoke derangements of cognitions such as schizophrenia and then ask if there is anything l...

The self-deception that Peirce had in mind is akin to, and indebted to, the self-deception that Kant revealed the Cartesian certainty to rest on. Ever...

Reality isn’t a product you’ll find in a drugstore, a neuropsychology lab, or on netflix. From a psychological point of view , the feeling of reality ...

This distinction relies on the assumption that thinking is an exclusively subjective activity that can point at objects or point at its own subjectivi...

I agree with you in general concerning the regularity of the world , but I think that the kind of regularity that is implied by your use of ‘extreme’ ...

Of course, Descartes isnt trying to find out if a person who is mentally deranged can perform a cognitive task(like determining if someone has suffere...

I agree that with the above, but that does t necessarily mean the below follows from it. Saying the world is mathematical is like saying that it consi...

According to the phenomenologists, the very structure of the present itself is such that it intends, anticipates beyond itself. And the present is the...

Such social memberships are based on shared understandings underlying shared practices. No more so than the scientist who supports Popper’s view of sc...

Because a large part of our empirical models of the messy, far-off, contingent, natural world are also formulated in the armchairs and heads of scient...

I wouldnt know how to distinguish philosophical speculations and imaginings from scientific models in any categorical sense. I think the essential con...

There are dozens of philosophers whose ideas I find extremely valuable. I can’t think of a single one of them whose questions fit your category of a m...

Or it’s like saying that if I grow up in a homophobic household where such views are connected to a fundamentalist religious belief system, and I eman...

I think you can have better than insider knowledge by subsuming insider thinking within a more encompassing framework that transcends its limitations....