Concept
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Constitution in Husserl
Concept · 2 readings
Constitution concerns how something has sense and validity through experience. It is not creation of an object by an individual mind or a causal explanation.
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Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: experience, embodiment and a shared world · Lesson 9 of 9
What can a description establish?
The final lesson of the study separates description, constitutive argument, causal explanation and ethical judgment, and weighs Husserl and Merleau-Ponty against their critics. Its checkpoint asks what an exhibition committee should do next.
Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: experience, embodiment and a shared world · Lesson 2 of 9
What changes when we bracket the world?
Husserl brackets the ordinary acceptance of the world and varies examples in imagination to find what cannot change. What could warrant the move from an apparent invariant to a necessity?
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Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: experience, embodiment and a shared world
Follow Husserl and Merleau-Ponty from the appearance of a familiar thing to time, bodily skill, expression and other people. Test what their descriptions establish, where their methods differ and what still needs evidence or an ethical argument.