P. Kerszberg: ‘Natural Science and the Experience of Nature’

We began this course, and Husserl in a sense began his phenomenological project, with a concern over the “grounding” of the natural sciences. Citing extensively from Husserl’s The Crisis of European Sciences, Pierre Kerszberg’s article, “Natural Science and the Experience of Nature,” is an extended review of the ways in which the natural sciences have [...]

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F. Milian: ‘The Husserlian Ideal of a Pure Phenomenology’

Milian begins his essay by highlighting what he believes to be the attractiveness of Husserl’s phenomenology. He explains these to be phenomenology’s claim of being a “pre-suppositionless discipline,” phenomenology’s elegance in its movement from the natural attitude to the transcendent ego, and the role phenomenology plays as being “in contradistinction to positivism.” Milian’s major point [...]

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Pure Consciousness

Class on 19 September … Today was our first day describing what “happens” after the epoché is put in place. It is important to note again the central role of the epoché in Husserlian phenomenology. In a way, a lot of Husserl “falls into place” after understanding the epoché. Why?

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Ideation and the Epoché

Class on 17 September … Today in class we focused mainly on two concepts, that of Eidos/Ideation and the phenomenological epoché.
The Natural Standpoint or Attitude is partly characterized by its constancy. As Husserl tells us,

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