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The central task of phenomenology is to investigate the nature of consciousness and its relations to objects of various types. The present book introduces students and other readers to several foundational topics of phenomenological inquiry, and illustrates phenomenology's contemporary relevance. The main topics include consciousness, intentionality, perception, meaning, and knowledge. The book also contains critical assessments of Edmund Husserl's phenomenological method. It argues that knowledge is the most fundamental mode of consciousness, and that the central theses constitutive of Husserl's "transcendental idealism" are compatible with metaphysical realism regarding the objects of thought, perception, and knowledge.¿¿¿¿
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Key Features:
Elucidates and engages with contemporary work in analytic epistemology and philosophy of mind
Provides clear prose explanations of the necessary distinctions and arguments required for understanding the subject
Places knowledge at the center of phenomenological inquiry
Sommario
Preface
1. Consciousness
2. Consciousness—A Look Inside
3. Intentionality and Meaning
4. The Mental Act
5. Meaning and Intuition
6. Perception
7. The Essential Inadequacy of Perception
8. The Content of Perception
9. Knowledge
10. Phenomenology
11. Phenomenology and Transcendental Idealism
Info autore
Walter Hopp is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He is the author of Perception and Knowledge: A Phenomenological Account (2011).
Riassunto
This book introduces students and other readers to several foundational topics of phenomenological inquiry, and to demonstrate phenomenology’s contemporary relevance.
