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Intentionality
Concept · 2 readings
Intentionality is the directedness of experience toward something. It need not involve an inner picture standing between a person and the object they encounter.
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Guided course · Module 11 · Lesson 64
Describe experience before explaining it away
Husserl and Merleau-Ponty describe experience through three ideas: intentionality, bracketing and embodiment. How does a whole object appear through changing bodily perspectives?
Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: experience, embodiment and a shared world · Lesson 1 of 9
One thing, more than one appearance
Husserl distinguishes an object from its changing appearances, and an act of experience from its intentional correlate. Intentionality, the lesson shows, needs neither an inner picture nor an infallible report, and leaves room for error and correction.
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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.