The years of study on Husserl’s theory of intentionality have led to a number of non-equivalent interpretations. The present work attempts to investigate the most prominent of these by presenting both their advantages and difficulties. However, its key point is specifically the analysis of Husserl’s theory. This is made in several stages that are concerned with the relation between noesis and noema: whether it is one-to-one or many-to-one, the kind of transcendency and dependency between them, and whether noema supervenes on noesis. Moreover, Husserl’s theory is also examined in—usually ignored—instances of contradiction, nonsense and intentional conflict. The outcome is a fresh reading in which noema occurs as the possibly thinkable content capable of constituting multi-objective references and composed of pure X explained in terms of syntactic matter and form.
About the Author
Dr Łukasz Kosowski is a young, non-associated researcher working mainly in thefield of Husserlian phenomenology, formal ontology and philosophy of mind.However, he is also interested in the problems of contemporary neuroscience. Hismain work concerns the interpretation of noema that would specify Husserl’s theoryof intentionality and make it suitable for application in other philosophical andscientific fields. The main part of this work can be found in the present publication and in “Noema in the Light of Contradiction, Conflict, and Nonsense: The Noema as Possibly Thinkable Content”, In Husserl Studies, Vol. 24, No. 3.
ISBN: 978-3-86838-095-8
204 pp
Hardcover
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Keywords:
Noema, noesis, supervenience, thinkability, content, noetic-noematic, dependence, transcendence, intentionality, experience, Husserl.
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