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Defending Husserl

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The phenomenological approach to the philosophy of mind, as inaugurated by Brentano and worked out in a very sophisticated way by Husserl, has been severely criticized by philosophers within t...
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  • 20 January 2014
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The phenomenological approach to the philosophy of mind, as inaugurated by Brentano and worked out in a very sophisticated way by Husserl, has been severely criticized by philosophers within the Wittgensteinian tradition and, implicitly, by Wittgenstein himself. Their criticism is, in the epistemological regard, directed against introspectionism, and in the ontological regard, against an internalist and qualia-friendly, non-functionalist (or: broadly dualistic/idealistic) conception of the mind. The book examines this criticism in detail, looking at the writings of Wittgenstein, Ryle, Hacker, Dennett, and other authors, reconstructing their arguments, and pointing out where they fall short of their aim. In defending Husserl against his Wittgensteinian critics, the book also offers a comprehensive fresh view of phenomenology as a philosophy of mind. In particular, Husserl’s non-representationalist theory of intentionality is carefully described in its various aspects and elucidated also with respect to its development, taking into account writings from various periods of Husserl’s career. Last but not least, the book shows Wittgensteinianism to be one of the effective roots of the present-day hegemony of physicalism.

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Price: $280.00
Pages: 529
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Publication Date: 20 January 2014
ISBN: 9783110342314
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: PHI004000 PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHI013000 PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHI038000 PHILOSOPHY / Language
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Uwe Meixner, Universität Augsburg.



Uwe Meixner, University of Augsburg, Germany.