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Defending Husserl : a Plea in the Case of Wittgenstein & Company versus Phenomenology.

The phenomenological approach to the philosophy of mind, as worked out by Husserl, has been severely criticized by philosophers within the Wittgensteinian tradition and, implicitly, by Wittgenstein himself. This book examines this criticism in detail, looking at the writings of Wittgenstein, Ryle, H...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meixner, Uwe
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2014.
©2014
Colección:Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface: What is at Issue?; Remarks on the Method and the Manner of this Book; Chapter I: On Imagining; I.1 Ryle on imagining; I.2 Dennett (and Ryle) on imagining; I.3 Bennett & Hacker on imagining; I.4 Husserl on imagining; I.5 Wittgenstein (in contrast to Husserl) on imagining; Appendix to Chapter I: The German originals of the quotations from Husserl and Wittgenstein in Chapter I, and remarks on matters of translation; Chapter II: On Knowing the Inward Mental Life; II. 1 Against privatism and eliminativism; II. 2 Subjective and intersubjective knowledge of the inward mental life.
  • II. 2.1 Ryle and Wittgenstein against introspection (reflexive experience)II. 2.2 Wittgenstein's argument against knowledge of the inward mental life; II. 2.3 Wittgenstein and Gorgias; II. 3 The true nature of consciousness, and its true epistemological consequences; II. 3.1 The root of Wittgensteinianism; II. 3.2 Knowing one's own mind and the minds of others; II. 4 Coda: the second-person point of view; Appendix to Chapter II: The German originals of the quotations from Husserl and Wittgenstein in Chapter II, and remarks on matters of translation; Chapter III: On Intending.
  • III. 1 A prologue: epochéIII. 2 Technical intentionality-predicates; III. 3 The great divide in intentionality theory
  • first part: Ryle (and Wittgenstein) versus Husserl; III. 3.1 Rylean Husserl and non-Rylean Husserl; III. 3.2 Does Husserl's theory of intentionality lead to idealism?; III. 4 The great divide in intentionality theory
  • second part: Wittgenstein versus Husserl; III. 4.1 In corroboration of the thesis that Wittgenstein is an intentionality nihilist; III. 5 Dennett's nihilism regarding intentionality; III. 6 Bennett & Hacker's nihilism regarding intentionality.
  • III. 7 The Wittgenstein-syndrome in the theory of intentionalityIII. 8 Wittgenstein's profundity; Appendix to Chapter III: The German originals of the quotations from Husserl and Wittgenstein in Chapter III, and remarks on matters of translation; Chapter IV: On the Literature; IV. 1 Husserl without introspection?; IV. 2 On the difficulty of saying the phenomenological truth in the best possible way; IV. 2.1 Thompson on reflexive (or reflective) experience, inner experience, introspection; IV. 2.2 Thompson on representationalism; IV. 2.3 Thompson on imagining; IV. 3 Was Husserl an externalist?
  • IV.4 Husserl's theory of intentionality misinterpretedIV.4.1 The Bell does not toll for Husserl's theory of intentionality; IV.5 Four views of a Wittgensteinian; IV.5.1 The first view (concerning introspection); IV.5.2 The second view (concerning Anscombe's mistranslation of "Vorstellung" and, allegedly, of "Bild"); IV.5.3 The third view (concerning the intentionality of imaginings; IV.5.4 The fourth view (concerning the ontological and epistemological status of imaginings); IV.6 Among the blind, the one-eyed is king; IV.7 Referentialism and anti-referentialism.