The Rationalization of Consciousness
A Mereological Reconstruction of Husserl’s Fifth Logical Investigation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6180425 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexis Delamare (0000-0001-9737-4540, Heidelberg University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin d Analyse Phénoménologique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1782-2041 |
| Publisher | University of Liege (PUBLISHER • BE) |
| DOI | 10.25518/1782-2041.1256 |
| OpenAlex | W3198232509 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
Before engaging with intentionality, the philosopher of mind must consider the intrinsic nature of psychological elements. Conscious states, contrary to ordinary and scientific objects, seem to penetrate each another in such a way that it becomes impossible to enumerate, class or organize through laws the various experiences at stake. In this context, how is a science of consciousness conceivable? How is it possible to apply the epistemological requirements of any science to a domain whose ontological nature contradicts such demands? The paper reconstructs Husserl’s solution to this issue in the Fifth Logical Investigation. I show how his appeal to the mereological framework of the Third Investigation gives him the tools to rationalize the domain of the mind and to establish phenomenology as an authentic science of consciousness. I first demonstrate that the very task of phenomenological investigations is defined in mereological terms. I then reconstruct the issue regarding the inclusion of the intentional object within the act, by exposing the nuances of the Husserlian position in this famous controversy. In a last part, I show how mereological concepts are at the core of the Husserlian reinterpretation of the Brentanian thesis according to which all acts are presentations or based on presentations
Aesthetics · Appeal · Consciousness · Epistemology · Explication · Intentionality · Mereology · Metaphysics · Physicalism · Reinterpretation · Law · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy and Historical Thought · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
Franz Brentano
Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy
On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (1893–1917)
Phénoménologie de la perception
Early Writings in the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics
Time and Free Will
Vom Ursprung sittlicher Erkenntnis
L’essence de la manifestation
When Are Objects Parts
On Husserl's Theory of Consciousness in the Fifth Logical Investigation
Die Lehre vom richtigen Urteil
The Logic of Parts and Wholes in Husserl's Investigations
Husserl and Brentano on Intentionality
Husserl's Theory of Consciousness in the Fifth Logical Investigation
Ideas pertaining to a pure phenomenology and to a phenomenological philosophy
Corrélation et immanence chez Bergson et Husserl
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |