Questions tagged [phenomenology]
Phenomenology is a philosophical movement associated with Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Paul Sartre. It is also a philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness.
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Is Edmund Husserl’s philosophy compatible with retrocausality
As a disclaimer, I’ve only read excerpts of Husserl, however from what I’ve read my understanding is he believes that the now we experience is constituted by not only impression (experience of the ...
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Did Kant's concept of noumenon originally mean “truths limited to conception,” rather than unknowable things-in-themselves?
Most treatments of Kant’s noumenon equate it with the "thing-in-itself" (Ding an sich), emphasizing its unknowability. The common reading suggests that while phenomena are appearances ...
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Phenomenological experience as heuristic in science: is this methodologically legitimate?
Many major scientific advances appear to have involved strong intuitive or experiential components that were later translated into formal scientific language.
For example, Isaac Newton worked within a ...
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What are functions? [closed]
It seems to me that a lot of attempts to reduce everything to a basis of fundamental categories often leads one to some notion similar to that of a function. However, it can also be strange to think ...
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Are the Bhagavad Gita’s ideas on non-attached action discussed in contemporary academic philosophy?
The Bhagavad Gita presents arguments relevant to debates on non-duality, epistemic limitation, and action. It emphasizes that human perception is limited (since everything we do is limited by our 5 ...
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Is living a specifically and ultimately personal enterprise?
It's somewhat difficult to explain this particular perspective, which although contains some aspects of solipsism, is fundamentally a different position.
My question arises from personal observations ...
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In what ways can doxic modalities be modified in the phenomenal reduction, qua Husserl?
In Ideas, namely in Part 3, Section 4, Husserl talks about particular 'modifications' that can be applied to such doxic features of the mind as consciousness, beliefs and perspectives, in the process ...
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Kant a priori intuitions and categories - the structuring tool of of our experience - are phenomenal, noumenal, or something else?
How did Kant justify his knowledge of the a priori, of the intutions? I heavily doubt they can be phenomenal; thus, they should be noumenal. But if they are noumenal, and the noumenon is inaccessible, ...
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Help understanding Meinong's mind as object
In Meinong’s theory of mind, self-presentation (Selbstpräsentation) is described as a mark of consciousness. Mental experiences are said to present themselves directly to the subject, without ...
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Is there, for Gadamer, a more basic act than understanding?
I'm not an expert on Gadamer, so I’d like to ask those more familiar with his thought: In his philosophy, is there anything more fundamental than meaning and the act of understanding it?
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In phenomenology, is intentionality anything other that attention?
I always thought of intentionality as attention. Husserl is undoubdedly one of the least readable authors ever, however I am pretty sure that he would agree with this.
The idea is that our ...
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Is everything that exists, knowable? [closed]
I consider existence as an abstract fundamental something, and everything that exists is a manifestation of "existence". I am calling it "something" because I don't know what to ...
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Who is in control, Being or "being"? [closed]
Indian Philosophy talks about "being"(human) and Being in terms of two birds sitting on a tree. Tree being this body. So while one bird(being) is active in the world and Experiences things, ...
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Does Meinong’s theory of perception fall into “the Myth of the Given”?
I’m trying to understand whether Meinong’s account of perception — with its distinction between act, content, and object — implies a kind of non-conceptual, foundational given, or whether it avoids ...
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Help understanding Husserl and Meinong on non-existence
I don’t quite understand the difference between Husserl and Meinong on the issue of non-existence. I’ve spoken with some Husserlians who explain that Husserl is quite different from Meinong, but ...
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