Phenomenology and Descriptive Psychology
Denis Fisette
Oxford Handbooks Online July 10, 2018 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198755340.013.6 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Historical analysis Peer reviewed |
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| Topics | Philosophy of mind |
| Key points | The chapter traces Husserl's early philosophical development from his studies with Brentano and Stumpf to his break with Brentano's criteria for classifying phenomena, and argues that Husserl's own arguments in the first edition of his Hauptwerk led him to sharply dissociate phenomenology from descriptive psychology shortly after the Logical Investigations. |
Abstract
This chapter is about Husserl’s early phenomenology. It is divided into five parts. The first part is about the young Husserl’s years of study and his encounter with Brentano in Vienna and with Carl Stumpf in Halle. The second and third parts are meant to succinctly describe Husserl’s original contribution to Brentano’s philosophical program prior to the publication of his Logical Investigations in 1900–1. In the fourth part, the chapter examines Husserl’s criticism of Brentano’s criteria in his Psychology for delineating the two classes of phenomena and Husserl’s arguments for the delineation of his phenomenology in the first edition of his Hauptwerk. It concludes on a Stumpfian note about Husserl’s reasons, shortly after the publication of his Logical Investigations, to sharply dissociate phenomenology from descriptive psychology.
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