Absent Aspects, Possible Perceptions and Open Intersubjectivity

A Critical Analysis of Dan Zahavi’s Account of Horizontal Intentionality

Bibliographic Data

ID8409355
AuthorsGunnar Declerck (Sorbonne Université, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume49
Issue4
Pages321-341
Publication date2018-10-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-1773 • E-ISSN: 2332-0486
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00071773.2018.1463638
OpenAlexW2800928567
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited27

The aim of this narrow-focused text is to argue against the claim that the appresentation of unperceived features of objects that is implied in perceptual intentionality presupposes a reference to perceptions other subjects could have of these objects. This claim, as it has been defended by Dan Zahavi, rests upon an erroneous supposition about the modal status of the perceptual possibilities to which the perceived object refers, which shall not be interpreted as effectively realizable but as mere de jure possibilities, perceptions that could have been realized in principle, but that are maybe beyond one’s reach considering one’s concrete factual powers and opportunities. Horizontal intentionality is better accounted for in terms of perceptions that one could have had because of one’s embodied character and the always open possibility of occupying another position with respect to the object. This modal ubiquity which is inherent to one’s being-in-space is what supports the field of de jure possibilities that is implied in horizontal intentionality. The co-presence of the parts and features one does not perceive from here is a counterpoint to one’s being-possibly-there

Aesthetics · Counterpoint · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Intentionality · Intersubjectivity · Linguistics · Modal · Object (grammar) · Perception · Phenomenology (philosophy) · Sociology · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

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