Abstract This article examines how rational normativity can be integrated into nature without reduction or dualism. Drawing on Thomas Nagel’s critique of reductive naturalism and Husserl’s refutation of psychologism, it argues that adequate accounts of mind must respect the transcendental status of reason while also explaining how rational subjects belong to the natural world. The paper...
Abstract Despite Husserl’s frequent references to Descartes, their relationship has received limited scholarly attention. This article has two aims: (i) discussing Husserl’s interpretation of Descartes’ philosophy, especially in relation to the account of the cogito, and (ii) using phenomenological insights to reconsider the role of memory in the Meditationes de prima philosophia. It argues...
Abstract In this paper, I explore the role of the history of intelligence in relation to the realization of the ideal in F.W.J. Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism (1800). To this end, I examine Schelling’s concept of history as an unfolding process and analyze his division of history into three “periods”. A central theme here is how Schelling’s depiction of consciousness evolves...