Mental Construction: A Shared Framework in Psychology and Husserl-Inspired Model of Intentionality
Journal for General Philosophy of Science March 26, 2026 Chang Liu, Bin Ye
Constructionists claim that emotions result from the categorization of a kind of phenomenal character, or what is known as core affect. This categorization takes shape in terms of prior situated experience. Husserl, in turn, suggests that perceptions emerge from the apprehension of a kind of phenomenal character. Similarly, this also takes shape in terms of prior situated experience. Thus, the...