Phenomenologists on Perception and Hallucination: Husserl and Merleau‐Ponty
Philosophy Compass August 1, 2022 DOI: 10.1111/phc3.12861 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | The text reports that scholars increasingly agree Merleau-Ponty was a disjunctivist avant la lettre, while how to interpret Husserl's position in the disjunctivist-conjunctivist debate remains contested. The paper frames this interpretive disagreement as the context for its inquiry. |
Abstract
Abstract There is a chasm in current analytic philosophy of perception between disjunctivists (and naïve realists), on the one hand, and ‘conjunctivists’ (intentionalists), on the other. For more than a decade, scholars of phenomenology have debated how classical phenomenologists such as Husserl and Merleau‐Ponty are to be located vis‐à‐vis this chasm. While there seems to be an emerging consensus that Merleau‐Ponty was a disjunctivist avant la lettre , how to interpret Husserl remains contested.