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Thomas Sheehan (on Entitled Opinions) on Phenomenology

January 27, 2012 by Mark Linsenmayer 10 Comments

If you're still confused about what phenomenology is, what Husserl was about, and how he relates to Heidegger, this October 2011 episode of the Entitled Opinions podcast may help clear things up. Interviewer Robert Harrison starts the discussion expressing the excitement of applied, humanistic phenomenology, i.e. as it was used by existentialists like Sartre. Sheehan says that  Continue Reading …

Three Types of “Reduction” in Phenomenology

December 22, 2011 by Mark Linsenmayer 7 Comments

John Townsend (who does video blogs about Merleau-Ponty) reminded me (here) that there's more than one kind of "reduction" in phenomenology. Since pretty much none of these were covered in our Husserl episode as far as I recall, I thought this was worth my time to do some quick Wikipedia research and report back. The phenomenological reduction, or epoché, is a suspension of  Continue Reading …

Topic for #47: Sartre on the Self

November 11, 2011 by Mark Linsenmayer 3 Comments

Jean-Paul Sartre is best known for his 1960's existentialism and Marxist activism, but before he was a big celebrity, he was a phenomenologist who spent a lot of time grappling with Heidegger (his book Being and Nothingnessis an homage in part to Heidegger's Being and Time, but more importantly (to this topic) with Edmund Husserl. Part of Husserl's analysis of experience  Continue Reading …

Robert C. Solomon on Husserl’s Phenomenology

April 27, 2011 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

I couldn't find any Solomon lectures on Hegel, but here's one introducing Edmund Husserl, which I think is apt now that we've covered Hegel's "phenomenology," so you can reflect on the difference: Listen on youtube. Maybe the only reference to Hegel here is the discussion of Husserl's rejection of historicism, though I think it should be clear that "historicist" is would be  Continue Reading …

Robert C. Solomon on Husserl’s Phenomenology

April 27, 2011 by Mark Linsenmayer 6 Comments

I couldn't find any Solomon lectures on Hegel, but here's one introducing Edmund Husserl, which I think is apt now that we've covered Hegel's "phenomenology," so you can reflect on the difference: Listen on youtube. Maybe the only reference to Hegel here is the discussion of Husserl's rejection of historicism, though I think it should be clear that "historicist" is  Continue Reading …

U. of Winchester Lecture on Husserl’s Phenomology

February 5, 2011 by Mark Linsenmayer 3 Comments

Here's another Husserl lecture to listen to, which sets Husserl in historical context as a contemporary of Freud prior to World War Two. The unnamed lecturer (I'll be happy to update this post if someone can figure out who this is) talks a little about the relationship between Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Husserl's phenomenology. Listen on YouTube. The lecturer  Continue Reading …

Episode 31: Husserl’s Phenomenology (Citizens Only)

January 20, 2011 by Mark Linsenmayer 3 Comments

Discussing Edmund Husserl's Cartesian Meditations (1931). How can we analyze our experience? Husserl thinks that Descartes was right about the need to ground science from the standpoint of our own experience, but wrong about everything else. Husserl recommends we "bracket" the question of whether the external world exists and just focus on the contents of our consciousness  Continue Reading …

Bryan McGee and Hubert Dreyfus on Husserl and Heidegger

January 17, 2011 by Mark Linsenmayer 4 Comments

Daniel has already linked to this video in comments, but I wanted to make an actual post about it: Watch on youtube. The Husserl discussion here is pretty brief and not very revealing. Dreyfus, for one, is a Heidegger scholar and thinks that Husserl is only important insofar as he influenced Heidegger and showed (through his exemplification of it) the bankruptcy of a  Continue Reading …

Robert Sokolowski audio on Husserl

January 14, 2011 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

In this clip (broken into five parts), Robert Sokolowski reads a paper in 2009 at a conference organized to celebrate Husserl's 150th birthday: Listen on youtube. 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  Continue Reading …

Consciousness (Intentionality) as Transcendent

January 13, 2011 by Mark Linsenmayer 3 Comments

An important point on the Husserl episode that I was trying to get across was his notion that "intentionality" as he uses it doesn't just mean that all conscious acts have a target, i.e. something you're conscious of, but that this content is not itself something subjective. When we grasp something in consciousness, we're not just contemplating our own sensations (as  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Episode 31: Husserl’s Phenomenology

January 10, 2011 by Mark Linsenmayer 41 Comments

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