This book unifies a large part of the vast body of Husserlian phenomenology using a relatively simple set of dynamical laws. Der Ursprung des Akts. 12. If this were not possible, it would be hard to conceive how sciences like physics and chemistry could have emerged at all. Thus, the criterion for phenomenologically accurate descriptions remains the self-givenness of the intended experience. 10. XVI. Galilei, G. (1957). A further step is to bracket ourselves as existing human subjects. The inherent development and dynamics of consciousness pose further problems. The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. In this context, Husserl (1983, pp. The stone as a physical thing is hence a “transcendent object” in this second sense. Husserl, E. (1969). Kant (1999, A 320/B 376) claimed that “[t]he genus” of all conscious phenomena “is representation in general.” Many other philosophers followed, notably Schopenhauer (2010, p. 23), who claimed: “‘The world is my representation': – this holds true for every living, cognitive being.” Husserl (2001a, p. 276) disagrees and goes so far as to say that understanding all conscious experiences as representations (Vorstellungen) “is one of the worst conceptual distortions known to philosophy. 4, 121–132. You may experience other visitors looking at the statue, but you do not experience their conscious experiences of the statue. For instance, I can easily notice and introspectively describe what I assume David to be like. Die Frage ihrer Beziehung bei Husserl. Jackson, F. (1986). For not only do we need to withhold the blind application of concepts that we are already familiar with (i.e., prejudices) we also need to acquire new concepts in order to be able to accurately describe the new sphere. Dordrecht: Springer. Crisis and Husserlian Phenomenology: A Reflection on Awakened Subjectivity | Knies, Professor Kenneth | ISBN: 9781350145214 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. “Disagreement about cognitive phenomenology,” in Cognitive Phenomenology, eds T. Bayne and M. Montague (Oxford; New York, NY: Oxford University Press), 268–284. L. Hardy. As Husserl demands a strict correlation between all elements of a theoretical proposition and actual observation, he has no need for Ockham's razor. (5) How does Husserl ensure that his method yields results that are independent from the peculiarities of the individual observer's consciousness? 292–293) thereby discovered the curious fact that the meaning of a category is equally well fulfilled if its relata are intuitively given as sensations or phantasmata. And the physical is only one of many transcendent layers which are accessible by means of being conscious of them. The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 4. Dritter Teil: 1929-1935. ed I. Kern. Phänomenologische Untersuchungen zur Konstitution, ed M. Biemel. From adequacy to apodicticity. – To carry out the philosophical task, we must get rif of the psychologism, which makes us confuse a theory with a psychic event. Logical Investigations. Therefore, invoking different senses only emphasizes that we cannot simultaneously experience all possible sensations. This freedom underlying our experience of the world, the related possibility to err and the involvement of a subject, are the reason why it is appropriate to speak about your intention to see it this rather than that way. The distinction made here is akin to the one Zahavi (2003, p. 46) suggests. Auslegungen der vorgegebenen Welt und ihrer Konstitution, ed R. Sowa. Such a treatment of conscious phenomena is possible, of course. But the law itself abstracts from these peculiarities: Husserl (1973b, p. 341) states that during eidetic variation “what differentiates the variants remains indifferent to us”20. Husserl is the founding father of phenomenology but it has often been claimed that virtually all post-Husserlian phenomenologists ended up distancing themselves from most aspects of his original program. Overcoming our prejudices as blind mechanisms of judging, which normally happen to us passively and without notice, is an arduous task. Wahrnehmung und Aufmerksamkeit. An example: Suppose you visit the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence to look at the original of Michelangelo's David. Because of this, science studies only certain features of our experience of things, while it dismisses the others as “merely subjective.” This leads to claims that these experiential qualities could be reduced to natural processes altogether. Ein Essay zum philosophischen Kontext der empirischen Psychologie. After a first reflection on the meaning of “introspection,” four elements of Husserl's methodology are introduced: the principle of all principles, epoché, phenomenological reduction, and eidetic variation. However, at any given moment, only one of David's many sides appears to you8. 55, 553–564. Bd. The phenomenological methodology according to Spiegelberg is described, and exemplified through the … 20. In his article on introspection in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Schwitzgebel (2016) notes: “No simple characterization is widely accepted.” Instead of a unitary definition, he lists features that many introspective accounts have in common. Yet, via epoché, you can become aware of these acts, and once you are aware of them, you are free to try out different intentions, e.g., “cherry,” “pear,” and so on. Breyer, T. (2011). (2011). As a result, Kant's access to the processes preceding our experience is speculative. |, An Outline of Husserl's Phenomenological Methodology, Husserl's Distinction Between Phenomenology and Introspection, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/introspection/, Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), Department of Philosophy, Center for Documentation and Research of Phenomenology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. In Nature’s Suit, Lee Hardy argues that both views represent a serious misreading of Husserl’s texts.Drawing Epoché, ed H.-H. Gander. Husserl's Phenomenology. This also explains why, when you are searching for something, in a sense you already experience what you search—namely the noema as a way to intend that particular thing. 241–243). (2009b). We are not every minute of the day introspecting. 45, 66–84. Crowell (2016, p. 193) notices that “to recognize […] the fulfillment relation […] is not yet to provide a phenomenology of thinking.” Eidetic variation is no doubt useful to determine whether a sensory experience can correspond to an ideal meaning. So there is no direct experience of other minds involved. The understanding of Husserlian phenomenology for the purposes of this review will draw on the direct study of English translations of Edmund Husserl's own published works and also on commentaries from internationally recognized phenomenological scholars and Husserlian phenomenological scholars. Remarkably, many researchers distancing phenomenology from introspection assume that introspection only yields idiosyncratic results peculiar to a certain individual's consciousness. Cai, W. (2013). ^ Husserl (1969, p. 248) explicitly included syntactic objects (categories) within the meaning of “eidos.”. London: Routledge. This process is thus a reduction of our description to exactly what we experience and is thereby Husserl's answer to questions (2) and (3) raised above. Next to the eidetic reduction, the phenomenological reduction or epoch (in Greek, suspension of Judgement) is to put aside the objective world and to suspend any naïve adherence to it, so as to allow access to the transcendental ego, defined as the ultimate subject reached the end of the phenomenological reduction. In the sixth of his Logical Investigations, Husserl (2001b, pp. These differences with regard to ongoing sensations were the reason Husserl used a different word to name the experiences occurring in imagination. Here it is appropriate to discuss the last missing feature of introspection Schwitzgebel mentions. München: Wilhelm Fink. But how do categories become experiential structures? Even science presupposes this. Kant (1999, A 240/B 299) elucidates further: “[I]t is also a requisite for one to make an abstract concept sensible, i.e., to display the object that corresponds to it in intuition, since without this the concept would remain (as one says) without sense.” As the categories are concepts, this transfers to them as well. Zahavi, D. (2003). A serious critique by Depraz et al. ^ Depraz et al. Kant furthermore used space and time to establish an unbridgeable gap between the world in itself and the world as it appears to us. ^ Naturalistic painters are a notable exception to this: They need to imitate the way the world appears in consciousness in order for us to be able to see what they want to depict. Freiburg: Alber. Yet the possibility of nonetheless distinguishing between the noema and the transcendent object allows us to draw a clear line between phenomenology and sciences like physics. (2009a). Hume required grounding claims about conceptual relations like causality in corresponding intuitions. This is reminiscent of the “thinking aloud” turn in the history of psychology that, instead of developing a method of introspection, treated verbal reports of subjects on their conscious experience as objective data. J. Vol. Psychol. When Descartes, Hume, and Kant characterized states ofperception, thought… 249 and 252) furthermore suggests seeing reflection as a radicalization of attentive awareness in order to spot meaningful structures. Breyer, T., and Gutland, C. (2016). Thus, although experience is the synthetic carrier that establishes necessary connections like causality, these connections' necessity cannot be established by observing experience. Analysen zur passiven Synthesis. IX. In other words: We need not only to watch and describe what we see without prejudice, as Husserl (1956, p. 147) makes it seem, we need to learn. Gutland, C. (forthcoming). 124–25), and others claimed that these experiential qualities are entirely subjective. ^ Husserl (1983, p. 197) called the implied idea of a complete sensory givenness an “idea in the Kantian sense.” Husserl (1983, p. 197) argued that this idea, as such, can reach “an absolutely indubitable givenness.”. Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, transl. These acts are carried out by you. Phenomenological Psychology. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Husserl calls this act the “noesis.” The noesis is introduced in more detail below. (2003, p. 70) are right that “expressive fulfillment remains a blind spot in phenomenological analysis,” and that “Husserl barely treated it.”. 2. … 1b−2a) did, but as both pure intuitions and forms of intuition (see Kant, 1999, A 20/B 34–35). (e) In contrast to Kant and in line with Hume, Husserl strives to explore these laws based on intuition. 3, 16–25. But even then, an actual impression of the current rear side is missing. Husserliana. Husserl, E. (1973b). For if they are wrong and we do not notice them, they distort our attempts to accurately describe our experience. Furthermore, as you move around the statue, it appears to you from different angles. We can, however, also represent a thing. As Husserl (2008, p. 658, my translation and emphasis) stressed, “The normal as an optimum distinguishes itself in experience so that even a single person could become the norm of the experiential truth.” Husserl (2008, pp. The worry, however, is not that prejudices are always wrong. Powered by WordPress. Year: 1999. Husserl's solution is to ground claims about a priori laws of consciousness not in perceptual intuition (sensation), but in free variations of imaginings (phantasmata). Now that Husserl's method has been outlined along with some of its achievements and potential, it is crucial for an interdisciplinary dialogue on introspection to at least sketch some of its problems and weaknesses. Copyright © 2018 Gutland. The thesis of this article is that Husserl's proposed method for intuitively exploring the essential or a priori laws of consciousness is a kind of introspection. But we bring something with us: our knowledge and experience. 658, 721) illustrates this: If most people were born blind, this sheer majority would be no reason to reject the possibility of the minority's experience of color. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Husserl's Legacy: Phenomenology, Metaphysics, and Transcendental Philosophy. London: Imprint Academic. The tree as the transcendent object or the “physical thing belonging to nature […] can burn up, be resolved into its chemical elements” (Husserl, 1983, p. 216). HUSSERLIAN AND HEIDEGGERIAN PHENOMENOLOGY (Received 22 September, 1971) Phenomenology is associated above all with the name of Edmund Husserl. It could be, however, that the transcendental constitution is in accordance with a priori laws without the subject having to be the source of these laws. While this may sound simple, it is in fact one of the most challenging methodological requirements. Stud. The publishing fee of this article is payed by the Center for Documentation and Research of Phenomenology, Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. google_ad_height = 15; Erste Philosophie (1923/24). These are the same structures we explicate in conscious judgments about the world. Pages: 285. Phänomenologie und Psychologie. Logical Investigations. Kant's (1999, A 91-92/B 123–124) was well aware of this, as he clearly rejected establishing causality's necessity based on experience (a posteriori). C. Smith. These two prejudices of Husserl are important for understanding his proposed methodology. Husserl, E. (1959). Kelly, M. R. (2014). The eidetic variation further helps to test claims about necessary structures without being dependent on actual perception. Therefore, leaving out the transcendent object, when we perceive there are three elements involved: (1) the immanent object (2) the act or noesis (3) the noema as the result and correlate of this act. Husserl Stud. Categories and De Interpretatione, ed J. L. Ackrill. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Still, the stone remains a physical object whether you perceive it or not. Dennett, D. C. (1992). 29, 13–27. Hume (2007, p. 51) stressed, however, that this feeling is not an experience of necessary causality itself. Thus, for him, a physical thing is not an appearance of an incomprehensible thing in itself. Experience of the transcendental sphere thus requires the epoché as both: an unnatural effort and a means of detection. 23–59) pointed out that science only accepted as objective those experiential qualities, like geometrical shape, that allowed for a direct quantification. The two meanings of “transcendent” imply that there are two meanings of “immanent” as well. This book unifies a large part of the vast body of Husserlian phenomenology using a relatively simple set of dynamical laws. Vorlesungen Sommersemester 1925., 2nd Edn. If it means that the general laws are experienced in one's own mind only and not in other minds, Husserl's method has this feature. This is relevant for introspection insofar as there is a crucial distinction between what is happening in consciousness and what we notice about it. But a newborn cannot practice eidetic variation, much less give an adequate report of what her consciousness is like. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. – The phenomenology must be defined as the study of phenomena. Thomasson, A. L. (2003). While he did provide some descriptions of hearing and touching (see Husserl, 1973a, 1991a,b), those of smell and taste are scarce. Boston, MA: Back Bay Books. Attentionalität und Intentionalität. Husserl, E. (1983). 27–28) discovered a second meaning of “transcendent.” The first meaning refers to the fact that a thing always has features beyond the ones currently given to you in experience. Inform. Husserl (1970, p. 115) took issue with these speculations about intuitively inaccessible processes allegedly shaping our actual experience. Walter Hopp, Hanne Jacobs; Publishing model Hybrid. However, he disagreed with Hume in that he rejected establishing relations such as causality based on actual empirical experience (a posteriori). Husserl firmly disagreed with this assumption for reasons the next subsection addresses. This reveals an important ambiguity of the word “conscious”: It can refer to conscious processes and phenomena that are there regardless of anyone taking explicit notice of them, or it can mean their being noticed. 6, 17–42. Husserliana. In the terminology used here, eidetic variation is the means of acquiring knowledge about eidei rather than empirical facts, while epoché is the means to experience phenomena rather than being. Edmund Husserl, founder of the phenomenological movement, is usually read as an idealist in his metaphysics and an instrumentalist in his philosophy of science. An example: If I walk down a street, my walking is subject to the law of gravity. Ding und Raum, Vorlesungen 1907, ed U. Claesges Bd. This absolute givenness of the immanent object contrasts with the way the transcendent object is never given with all its features. F. Kersten. This terminological contrast allows the identification of a naïveté which is one of the reasons why introspection has “a bad track record” (Spener, 2011, p. 280). This is where intersubjectivity enters as a welcome and helpful corrective. D. Cairns. Tieszen is understandably weary of this tradition. 18. Thus, eidetic variation is not armchair speculation, as it bases its theoretical claims on actual intuition. 6, 175–187. When you are close enough, a part of it may even cover your entire visual field. Kant (1999, A 35/B 52) stated that “no object can ever be given to us in experience that would not belong under the condition of time.” If, however, all intuitions and experiences we can have are already temporal, we cannot intuitively study how temporality and sense intuition become interwoven in the first place. It is their blind application, their passive happening to us, that is dangerous. had difficulty defining the premises of phenomenology (Spiegelberg, 1984). This shows that phenomenology is not armchair reflection, but is the study of actual mental processes. Associate Editors. If introspection means to study the way the world appears to us subjectively in consciousness, the problem arises that in Kant's philosophy the way the world appears to us subjectively already entails all we will ever know about the world objectively. In order to avoid ambiguous terminology, from here on, in this text: (1) “Immanent object” refers to the “bare” conscious phenomenon without all the intentions of currently absent impressions. Volume 36. The major contributions of Husserlian and post-Husserlian phenomenology to the philosophical understanding of experience can hardly be overestimated. (2) “Noema” or “transcendental object” refers to phenomena which are: (a) transcendent in the sense of including all the intentions abstracted from in order to be aware of the immanent object; and. Now reflect: What just happened in your consciousness? google_ad_client = "pub-2379188881946579"; Husserl accepted Hume's assertion of an intuitive givenness of any theoretical proposition that is to be thought of as necessary (or essential). As Husserl strives to experience the general laws of consciousness, he was not interested in describing peculiar or idiosyncratic aspects of his individual mind. ^ While an important corrective, one must not overemphasize or misunderstand the relevance of intersubjectivity: In phenomenology, essential structures are not necessarily identical to what the majority of the intersubjective phenomenological community claims them to be. – The phenomenology must be defined as the study of phenomena. Is the experience of awareness identical to the feature of consciousness we become aware of, or is there a distance? Vermersch (1999, p. 27) criticizes these approaches because they “forget that, in order to produce these verbalizations, the subject has to have access to something even to be in a position to describe his mental acts.” Similarly, Cerbone (2003, p. 134) criticizes Dennett's heterophenomenology because it “helps itself to scientific data of all kinds […] whose possibility as data is left unexplained.”. Experiencing David from all sides and distances simultaneously, however, is impossible. Both theories predict the observable events equally well, but they do so by postulating quite different unobserved elements. Instead, in “immediately intuitive acts we intuit an ‘it itself;' […] there is no consciousness of anything for which the intuited might function as a ‘sign' or ‘picture”' (Husserl, 1983, p. 93). Husserl, E. (1970). Instead he wanted to experience himself those laws and structures that are in effect in the minds of others as well. The structure of this article focuses on introducing Husserl's method in an accessible manner. He assumed that “all our ideas are nothing but copies of our impressions.” He consequently suggested that, to investigate ideas like causality, we “[p]roduce the impressions or original sentiments, from which the ideas are copied” (Hume, 2007, p. 46). Instead, thought experience is inherently meaningful, rendering additional meaning-bestowing acts superfluous. (1952). (b) He furthermore assumes that these laws are enforced through the activity of a transcendental subjectivity. In order to fully grasp and answer Husserl's question of how to distinguish between general and idiosyncratic features of consciousness, it makes sense to assume that introspection as such yields both: idiosyncratic and general experiences (see Breyer and Gutland, 2016, pp. Kant (1999, A 42/B 59) maintained that once we abstract from the way the world appears to us humans, “space and time themselves would disappear.” Therefore, these filters distort the experience of the things and the world as they are in themselves. Levine, J. Forschung 37, 3–19. Yet, importantly, Husserl (1999, pp. Stud. 107–108) calls it. 17. With the word “subjective,” Kant does not mean the individual human subject, but all humans. The epoché shifts awareness away from the transcendent world and aids paying attention to consciousness as such. Erste Philosophie (1923/24). I believe that some progress towards such a solution has been made in post-Husserlian phenomenology, beginning with Heidegger. Husserl, E. (2008). Husserl, E. (2001a). One important feature that Husserl (1960, p. 144, 1970, p. 199) did accept was Kant's so called “Copernican turn.” In order to explain how we, as subjects, can have knowledge about objects, Kant (1999, B xvi-xvii) suggested that we conceive of the object's appearance based on forms that we find in ourselves as experiencing subjects. Thus, the freedom of variation overcomes the confines of inductive methodology, which is dependent on facts presented to us via sensation. By showing that consciousness is referred to something other than itself, Husserl, Sartre wrote like, put “an end to the cozy philosophy of immanence.” We reconstructed the world in its opacity and thickness. Instead he suggested that actual experience as we know it is only possible if it is already (a priori) structured by categories like causality. In this article, “to notice” and “to be aware of” encompass both: attentional directedness and reflective awareness7. Even though, building on this, it then singles out something that empirical induction ignores or does not “see,” it is nonetheless partly a way of looking at one's own consciousness in the very same direction as introspection in the narrow sense. The first meaning refers to the fact that the actual experience of a thing always lacks impressions of it. Ludwig Wittgenstein’s thought is most often associated with analytical philosophy, pragmatism or a specific metaphilosophical programme. What thereby happens to our natural convictions about existence is called “bracketing” or “parenthesizing.” Husserl (1983, p. 61) clarifies: “I am not negating this ‘world' as though I were a sophist; I am not doubting its factual being as though I were a skeptic; rather I am exercising the ‘phenomenological' which also completely shuts me off from any judgment about spatiotemporal factual being.”. In order to have the concept “thing” fulfilled by intuition, a phantasma serves just as well as an actual perception. In order to find orientation in it, another methodological technique is required. For the noema—the way you are conscious of a thing that is not itself of consciousness—is through and through a conscious phenomenon which can be described as such. If you have seen them previously, you will have a more definite and detailed expectation of what they look like. Available online at: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/introspection/. The principle of all principles ensures that claims have a foundation in actual intuition (spectare) and thereby prevents arbitrary speculations about unobserved entities. This means that the noema is transcendent relative to the immanent object, and at the same time immanent with regard to the thing which is itself not of consciousness. Other key proponents of phenomenology in philosophy include Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidigger, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Oxford World's Classics. After you enter, David's statue appears for the first time in your field of vision. The consequence was the Duhem-Quine indeterminacy: Two or more theories, distinct through their postulated unobserved elements, could equally well predict the course of actual empirical observations (see Carrier, 2009, p. 20). Vermersch, P. (1999). (3) Which methodological steps does Husserl take in order to achieve reliable grounds for introspective research? To some extent, this is even in line with Husserl (1983, p. 111), who stressed that “a veritable abyss yawns between consciousness and reality.” Thus, for Husserl, it would be wrong to seek consciousness as something real in the materialist sense, as the being of consciousness is on an entirely different level. That is certainly false, for not only are we usually aware only of certain aspects of consciousness, but it is also questionable whether our awareness can ever encompass the entirety of consciousness. Yet you only find what you search for when the thing that you intend also presents itself in an actual perception (cf. Introspection involves some sort of special reflection on one's own mental life that differs from the ordinary un-self-reflective flow of thought and action” (Schwitzgebel, 2016). He claimed space and time are subjective necessities of the way the world appears to us humans. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Still, both this narrow meaning of introspection and eidetic variation look in the same direction and in fact strive for something similar. The sense of “immanent” already introduced refers to the fact that at a given moment in time only some of the features of an object give themselves in experience. Husserl, E. (1960). Phänomenologische Psychologie. Sci. In consciousness, you obviously have a way to both remember and anticipate features of David—and yet the actual David can differ. ^ Even though this is so, one can of course err as soon as one apperceives the object as this or that. T.E. Finally, I am grateful to Christian Tewes, first of all for inviting me to contribute to this volume, but also for many helpful comments during the review process which all greatly helped to improve this article. For the answer to the question of how to make sure that a proposition truthfully describes the newly entered sphere is simply: It has to be in full accord with what we intuitively experience. This is clearly visible from what Husserl (1983, p. 44) calls the “principle of all principles: that every originary presentive intuition is a legitimizing source of cognition, that everything originarily […] offered to us in ‘intuition' is to be accepted simply as what it is presented as being, but also only within the limits in which it is presented there. In the early twentieth century, in fact, when Husserl begins to write his work, psychology seeks to establish itself as dominant and a foundation for logic and metaphysics. 7 The aspects mentioned therefore need an extension, possibly even a modification of the method. Stud. In phenomenology, it is as difficult as it is crucial to make these distinctions. Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff. Second, to claim a radical modification from pre-reflective to reflective awareness, one needs to be in an adequate position to compare the two states, i.e., to have secure knowledge about the pre-reflective awareness. I wish to express my thanks to a total of four reviewers. Lohmar, D. (1990). Such pitfalls are: a relatively uncontrolled and varying scope of awareness, false prejudices, and problems distinguishing between idiosyncratic and general features of consciousness.

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