Two dynamical themes in Husserl
Jeffrey Yoshimi
Advances in Consciousness Research July 11, 2012 DOI: 10.1075/aicr.88.08yos (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | The author proposes that Husserl's constitutive phenomenology can be understood as the study of incrementally developing phenomenological "models" that shape a person's sense of reality and context awareness, and that transcendental-eidetic phenomenology posits a hierarchy of laws governing the conscious organization required for different types of things to appear, arguing both aspects are relevant to cognitive science. |
Abstract
I describe and partially formalize two aspects of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological philosophy, in a way that highlights their relevance to cognitive science. First, I describe “constitutive phenomenology”, the study of structures (what I call phenomenological “models”) that constitute a person’s sense of reality. These structures develop incrementally over the course of a person’s life, and serve a variety of functions, e.g. generating expectations relative to actions, and determining the contents of context awareness. Second, I describe “transcendental-eidetic phenomenology”, which posits a hierarchy of laws, each governing the way consciousness must be organized in order for a particular type of thing (a physical thing, a person, a social institution, etc.) to appear.