Concept
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Phenomenological bracketing
Concept · 2 readings
Phenomenological bracketing suspends reliance on a belief while examining how its object appears. Husserl’s method differs from both Cartesian doubt and skeptical suspension.
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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 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.