In this clip (broken into five parts), Robert Sokolowski reads a paper in 2009 at a conference organized to celebrate Husserl's 150th birthday:
He describes Husserl's place in the history of philosophy (there's a lot of talk of ancient philosophy in here) and outlines his project, including more on the phenomenological reduction (epoché). One theme is the perennial conflict between philosophy and what Sokolowski describes as its non-philosophical alternatives: science (including empirical psychology) and sophistry. Husserl isn't just studying the structures of meaning (like Frege) but transcendental reality itself, just like philosophers back to the Greeks.
-Mark Linsenmayer
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