Abstract Over the last few years, issues related to the phenomenology of norms, normality, and normativity have been widely discussed in the scholarship. While several contributions devoted to Husserl’s account of normality exist, a systematic investigation of the categories of “non-normality” proves to be lacking. Moreover, such an investigation is necessary to grasp the essential link between...
Abstract In The Idea of Phenomenology , Husserl presents two different senses of the distinction between the immanent and the transcendent: a mereological sense and an epistemic sense. The failure to distinguish between these two senses leads to what he calls a “fatal mistake,” namely, the assumption that what is given absolutely in the epistemic sense is restricted only to what is immanent in...
Abstract This paper reexamines Husserl’s analyses of kinesthesia and bodiliness, challenging two dominant interpretations in phenomenological scholarship: first, that Husserl’s analysis of kinesthesia implies an idea of embodied subjectivity; and second, that the distinction between Leib and Körper provides a clear conceptual foundation for his theory of embodiment. Through a close reading of...
Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyse the experience of disembodiment in light of Husserl’s phenomenology. Given that disembodiment is characterized by a diminished sense of body ownership, it is usually interpreted in a Cartesian manner as involving a mind-body dichotomy. Contrary to this view, firstly, I argue that the dualist interpretation of disembodiment is phenomenologically...
The main aim of this article is to offer a systematic reconstruction of Husserl’s theory of minimal mind and his ideas pertaining to the lowest level of consciousness in living beings. In this context, the term ‘minimal mind’ refers to the mental sphere and capacities of the simplest conceivable subject. This topic is of significant contemporary interest for philosophy of mind and empirical...
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Phenomenology contains thirty-seven new essays by leading scholars in the field. The essays all highlight historical influences, connections, and developments and provide an in-depth coverage of the development of phenomenology; one that allows for a better comprehension and assessment of the continuity as well as diversity of the phenomenological...
This paper discusses the nature of consciousness' intrinsic intentionality from a transcendental-phenomenological viewpoint. In recent philosophy of mind the essentially intentional character of consciousness has become obscured because the latter is predominantly understood in terms of "qualia" or the "what-it-is-like-ness" of mental states and it is hard to see why such subjective "feels", of...