Questions tagged [husserl]
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (1859 – 1938) was a German philosopher associated with phenomenology.
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The different Egos in Husserl's Cartesian Meditations
So I thought I had understood the different 'Egos', mainly the distinction between the psychological and transcendental Ego, in the text. But throughout meditation 2 it becomes a bit confusing to me, ...
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What is Husserl's "reductionist method"?
In Ideas, Husserl seems pretty convinced that phenomenology is a new science. He says that phenomenology is a descriptive science, and having read through Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception, ...
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Husserlian Critiques of Scheler
It’s known that although Max Scheler’s phenomenology was heavily inspired by Husserl, he was no student of Husserl. So, the two had disagreements on how to do phenomenology. While I’m acutely aware of ...
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What does Husserl mean by 'purity'?
I'm reading "Ideas" by Husserl, and there are several notions I'd like to crystallise or 'locate' within my own experience.
Kant also spoke of purity, and with him it was in terms of ...
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Husserl and Science
If Husserl is not concerned with proving that the external world exists unlike Descartes then how does his findings on the nature of consciousness help to provide indubitable foundations for all ...
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Questions on Phenomenology
This is from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/#DiscPhen
Section 4 paragraph 9
One of Heidegger’s most innovative ideas was his conception of the “ground” of being, looking to modes of ...
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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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What is the distinction between Gegenstand and Objekt?
In German philosophy (particularly Kant and Husserl), the concepts Gegenstand and Objekt (and their conjugations Gegenständlichkeit and Objektivität) are used to describe very different things while ...
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Why is psychology a parallel to natural science?
This is from Husserl's Phenomenology which he wrote for the Encyclopedia Britannica:
It is by no means clear from the very outset, however, how far the idea of a pure psychology -as a psychological ...
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A question on Husserl and animals in relation to psychology
This is from Husserl's Phenomenology which he wrote for the Encyclopedia Britannica:
The scientific investigation of the bodies of animals fits within this area. By contrast, however, if the psychic ...
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Why is this a reformational claim?
This is from Husserl's Phenomenology, an article he wrote for the Encyclopedia Britannica:
Together with this philosophical phenomenology, but not yet separated from it, however, there also came into ...
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A few questions on Phenomenology
Can someone briefly explain:
What is the difference between Phenomenological, Transcendental and Eidetic reduction?
What the 'natural attitude means?
What it means to bracket the natural attitude?
Why ...
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What are ��intentionality”, “presence” and “taking as” with regards to Heidegger?
From Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Heidegger”:
Viewed in relation to Being and Time, the central philosophical theme in these early years is Heidegger's complex critical relationship with ...
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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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What is Camus' criticism of Husserl's phenomology and of Kierkegaard's thought?
I have not been able to grasp these concepts. Specifically, I am referring to the third chapter of the Myth of Sisyphus: "The philosophical suicide".
I have understood that Camus's critic on ...
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